Skating rink "Mega Ice" in the shopping center Aviapark. "Silver Ice" in Izmailovsky Park

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This winter, Moscow will have over 1,500 outdoor and indoor skating rinks. FoxTime has compiled the TOP 10 ice skating sites.

"Ice" in Sokolniki

Thanks to a special ice building technology, the skating rink on Festivalnaya Square in Sokolniki Park starts working long before severe frosts. There are two skate rental points on the territory, and the sides of the skating rink are illuminated with neon light. "Ice" is open daily from 10.00 to 00.00, there are subscriptions for 10 and 20 visits.

Sokolniki Park, Sokolnichesky Val Street, 1, building 1

Daily 10.00-00.00

Ticket 300-400 rubles

Skating rink "Factory of Happy People" in Gorky Park

The writer Herbert Wells dubbed Gorky Park the “Factory of Happy People” during his visit in 1934. This year, the park is celebrating its 90th anniversary, and on November 22 at 7 pm, the second-largest skating rink in Moscow will turn into a real factory with a neon conveyor and an industrial-style chimney. From the chips: some of the women's pairs of skates will be equipped with neon laces, a real hearth will appear in the center, and a neon forest around.

Gorky Park, Krymsky Val street, 9

Ticket 550-650 rubles

park-gorkogo.com

Winter City at VDNKh

As part of the Winter City New Year project, VDNKh will open two skating rinks at once: the Flower Garden for 1,200 people, decorated in the style of glass balls made of large spheres, and the Rocket around the Vostok launch vehicle for 2,400 visitors. Nearby, you can play curling and ride on cheesecakes from a tubing slide.

VDNH, Prospekt Mira street, 119

Ticket 250-400 rubles

GUM skating rink on Red Square

For the winter season 2018-2019, the design theme of the central ice rink of the country will be the heroes of Soviet cartoons, and a Christmas fair will traditionally be located nearby. The skating rink will open on November 29 with a fragment of the musical "The Scarlet Flower" by Tatyana Navka. In February, the GUM skating rink will host a stage of the World Curling Tour.

Red Square, 3

Ticket 400-500 rubles

gum.ru/rink

"Silver Ice" in Izmailovsky Park

The skating rink in Izmailovo combines natural ice and a skating rink with refrigeration support so that you can skate in any weather. On the territory of 9 trade pavilions where you can warm up and have a snack.

Izmailovsky park, People's Avenue, 17

Mon-Fri 12.00-22.00, Sat-Sun 11.00-22.00

Ticket 250-350 rubles

izmailovsky-park.ru

Skating rink in the Hermitage Garden

The skating rink in the Hermitage also combines artificial and natural ice in order to operate even during a thaw. Each of the skating rinks is equipped with a warm pavilion with rentals and stands with hot drinks and snacks.

Hermitage Garden, Karetny Ryad Street, 3

Mon 14.00-21.00, Tue-Fri 12.00-21.00, Sat-Sun 10.00-22.00

Ticket 250-350 rubles

Skating rink in the Bauman Garden

A small and very cozy skating rink for 2000 guests in the Bauman Garden will open on November 24 at 18.00. This year, the site is turning into the first Kinoskating rink in Moscow, where you can not only ride, but also watch movie classics in the fresh air.

Garden them. Bauman, Staraya Basmannaya street, 15

Ticket 200-300 rubles

Skating rink in Tagansky Park

On November 24, an open skating rink will open in Tagansky Park: the program of the holiday will include a brass band, an ice theater performance, a cover band and a disco on ice.

Tagansky park, Taganskaya street, 40

Ticket 300-350 rubles

"Everything on the ice!" in the Angarskiye Ponds park

November 24 at 14.00 in the park "Angarskie Prudy" the winter season will open with a skating rink of 1800 sq.m. for figure skating and hockey. The opening program includes a cryo show, master classes from figure skaters and animated performances.

Angarskiye Prudy Park, Sofia Kovalevskaya Street, 1, building 8

For free

liapark.ru

"Metelitsa" in Babushkinsky Park

Works in Babushkinsky Park ice rink area of 1300 sq.m. artificially cooled. Every Tuesday for pensioners, students, veterans and children from large families, admission to the rink is free.

Babushkinsky park, Menzhinsky street, 6, building 3

Daily 11.00-22.00, break 15.00-15.30, 18.00-18.30

Ticket 250-300 rubles

Text/ / Anastasia Dorogova

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Nearly 200 ice rinks will open in Moscow at the end of November artificial ice and over a thousand natural ice rinks. Soon, many Muscovites will be wondering: Where can I go skating in Moscow? Or where are the best ice rinks in Moscow?

Muscovites have been entertaining themselves this way in winter for several centuries. Let's remember the very first Moscow skating rinks, let's see where they skated before the revolution and in Soviet times —>

Like many other innovations, skates appeared in Russia thanks to Peter I. While in Holland, the Russian Tsar learned to skate. It was he who brought this "Dutch fun" home. It is believed that it was he who improved the skates by inventing to screw the blades directly to the shoes.

In the 18th century, small skating rinks were filled in the estates of St. Petersburg and Moscow nobility to amuse guests. The first public skating rink, as the story goes, appeared in the capital only in the middle of the 19th century.
The skating rink on Petrovka, 26/9

Skating rink on Petrovka 1901-1903

Since the 1860s, as contemporaries wrote, the best skating rink in Moscow has been here, where members of the first sports organization in Moscow, the Imperial River Yacht Club, were engaged in figure skating.
In 1889, the first speed skating championship in Russia was held at the rink. During the 20th century the ice rink also remained popular place recreation for city dwellers.

Skating rink on Petrovka, 1905

Skating rink on Petrovka, 1908

In pre-revolutionary Moscow, skating rinks were considered the same commercial establishments as, say, taverns. The income received from them was expressed by a four-digit figure and reached 7,000 rubles a year.
Traditional skiing places were leased by the city authorities. Tenants, at their own discretion, set high prices for entry tickets, advertised skating rinks, attracted the public in every possible way.

The skating rink of the Zoological Garden was famous. The strongest Moscow skaters trained on it, and at the beginning of the 20th century, speed skating competitions began to be held regularly.

Skating rink in the zoological garden, 1911

Speed skating competition at the Zoological Garden rink, 1908

The skating rink at the Patriarch's Ponds was especially popular among students and young students.

Skating rink at the Patriarch's Ponds, 1909
The Central State Historical Archive of Moscow also keeps such an interesting document - the report of the commission on the benefits and needs of the public to the City Duma dated October 2, 1895. It deals with the issue of providing benefits to students when using city skating rinks.

Entrepreneurs invited Muscovites to Chistye Prudy "to go skating in the metropolitan and European manner." A teahouse was built near the ice rink for the winter, and in holidays whole performances were played out on a specially constructed platform on the shore of the pond.

Ice rink on Chistye Prudy. 1900-1910

The first hockey tournaments for the Moscow championship were also held here.

1913

In the first decades of Soviet power, along with the promotion of a healthy lifestyle, skates (and skating rinks) became an integral part of leisure activities in the winter.

New Year's card 1939.

Skating rinks opened in all parks of the capital

Skating rink in Sokolniki, 1935

Ice rink in the park central house Red Army, 1939 (now Ekaterininsky Square)

Well, the skating rink in Gorky Park has become the main skating rink in Moscow.
An interesting fact: even before the opening of the TsPKiO them. Gorky, in the 1920s, on the ice of Pionersky Pond (then the pond was called Maly), the legendary bass Fyodor Chaliapin and the star of Soviet cinema, actor Igor Ilyinsky, loved to skate.