25.08.2016 12:21:33 (GMT+12)
In 2017 the longest Eurasia sled dog race Beringia will pass a new route from Kamchatka to Chukchi Peninsula. This suggestion was made by the Governor of Kamchatka Krai Vladimir Iluhin to the Governor of Chukchi Autonomous Okrug Roman Kopin.
The race will start as it has been preplanned in the village of Esso in Kamchatka. If mushers (drivers of dogsleds) will sled to Chukchi Peninsula, the distance can be about two thousand km. The final decision will be made to the end of August.
Beringia is a traditional Kamchatka sled dog race, which is held in March annually. The first race was held in 1990. The route was 250 km and there were eight teams. Next year the route was 1980 km and after that Beringia entered the Guinness Book of Records as the longest sled dog race in the world.
In 2016 the distance of Beringia was 1300 km from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to the village of Tilichiki in the north of Peninsula. Fifteen mushers took part in it. The winner got the main prize – three million rubles.
Photograph: Viktor Gumeniuk.
Translated by Marina Barannik.
The race will start as it has been preplanned in the village of Esso in Kamchatka. If mushers (drivers of dogsleds) will sled to Chukchi Peninsula, the distance can be about two thousand km. The final decision will be made to the end of August.
Beringia is a traditional Kamchatka sled dog race, which is held in March annually. The first race was held in 1990. The route was 250 km and there were eight teams. Next year the route was 1980 km and after that Beringia entered the Guinness Book of Records as the longest sled dog race in the world.
In 2016 the distance of Beringia was 1300 km from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to the village of Tilichiki in the north of Peninsula. Fifteen mushers took part in it. The winner got the main prize – three million rubles.
Photograph: Viktor Gumeniuk.
Translated by Marina Barannik.