UFA, 23 January 2019. /Bashinform News Agency/ translated by Tatiana Aksyutina/.
In Bashkiria, the Samrau Ballooning Festival began. Today, January 23, 7 teams on 7 balloons, altogether - 17 people, took off from the site in front of the “Krasnousolsky” sanatorium.
For the first time in the history of ballooning, courageous teams from the cities of St. Petersburg, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg, Kungur, Yoshkar-Ola and Ufa will try to fly in balloons over the Ural Mountains.
The flight will take place over the following points: Tukan, Uzyan village, Kraka range, Mukhametovo village.
The flight will last for eight hours - the entire day, the intended landing site - the area of Lake Yakty-Kul. There, at the weekend, the festival of Samrau air-balloons and the Digital-Kurultay forum will take place at the resort.
The air-movers are accompanied by a security service - a rapid response team ready to ride snowmobiles. Each balloon is equipped with a tracker, which in real time allows monitoring its movement.
Anyone can follow the flights on the link, live broadcasts are available on Facebook. You can also follow the flight on the link on the youtube.com channel of a video blogger, traveler, and Rutrail project founder Denis Doropey.
The flight is organized by the Aeronautics Federation of the Republic of Bashkortostan, the Yakty-Kul sanatorium, the “Yubileiny” sanatorium and the “Polet” Aviation Club.