The sixth festival of winter sports and entertainment Winter Entertainment in Uglich - 2013 was held in the city. During six years of its existence the holiday has become known far beyond the city. According to the tradition, the festival is held in the left-bank part of Uglich in the so-called area of quarries. A lot of tourists came to Uglich from Rybinsk, Vilsk, Moscow, Kostroma, Kalyazin, Vladimir, Cherepovets, Dubna, Krasnogorsk, Pereslavl, Novosibirsk. There were international guests - from Italy, Thailand and Brazil.
The main goal of the festival is the preservation of old and the emergence of new types of winter recreation. The program of the event includes snowmobile racing (drag racing), demonstrational swims of winter swimmers and competitions in winter swimming, winter motocross, the competition of self-made sledges, mass ski race, motor-paraplane flying, ice-fishing, horseback riding and "Winter Folk Games".
Author: Anna Dorozhkina