Add to favorite
 
Subscribe to our Newsletters Subscribe to our Newsletters Get Daily Updates RSS

Russians to Play Hockey on Aircraft Carrier
29.05.2012 10:11
Russians to Play Hockey on Aircraft Carrier

Russian VHL hockey league plans to hold a regular-season match on a working Russian Navy aircraft carrier.

      The VHL is a Russian farm league to the KHL. It is not very popular among Russian hockey fans, so the unusual match would be a PR coup for the league, according to German Skorlupov, VHL's managing director.

      The VHL hopes the Navy will agree to hold the match on flagship Admiral Kuznetsov carrier, which is based in the northern port of Murmansk and can carry up to 50 aircraft. One of the teams to take part will be St. Petersburg’s Navy club.

      However, the Navy still didn't comment on VHL's initiative, but the league hopes the idea will find supporters among Navy authorities.

      “The main thing is the atmosphere and the event,” spokesman Vitaly Panov said, adding that the quality of play could be affected by factors such as the wind.

      If the match holding is agreed it would be the first time that a professional hockey match has been held on a carrier. The similar action was held in U.S. in 2011, when President Barack Obama attended a college basketball game on the flight deck of the USS Carl Vinson. VHL's members denied the idea had been inspired by the Americans.


      

Sources: Lenta.ru RIA Novosti Image: 100modelek.ru


Author: Julia Alieva

Tags: Russian sport Russian hockey Russian Navy   

Next Previous


You might also find interesting:








Comment on our site


RSS   twitter      submit


Ïàðòåð


TAGS:
Manor Tourism  Russian ballet dancers  Orthodox Christianity  Russian oligarchs  Power Museums  Belokurikha  Moscow libraries  Aquarium  TNK-BP  Russian business  Tomsk University  Wedding in Russia  Russian opera singers  Russian Railways  Russian Astronauts  Exhibitions in Moscow  Russian economy  Russian parliament  Moscow planetarium  Media Markt  Russian scientists  Russian churches  migration in Russia  St. Petersburg  Zaryadye  Russian science  Russian legislation  Primorsky Territory  Cinema Night  City Hunter  AK-102  Concerts in St. Petersburg  tours to Russia  Moscow  Novoaltaisk  Ukraine crisis  VTB Capital  Old Churches  Russian tourism  Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts  Ulyana Lopatkina  Sochi International Film Awards  Russian president  Alexey Pushkov  Early Music Festival  Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia  Russian Cinema  Lyubov Sokolova  Pilorama Civic Forum  Fabio Capello 


Travel Blogs
Top Traveling Sites