This winter in Irkutsk, 15 rinks in different parts of the city will be prepared for public skating and sports training, and 24 school grounds will be iced for bandy. Several facilities are being renovated.
As of today, there are 42 sports grounds in Irkutsk. This year, 15 rinks in different parts of the city are planned to be flooded for public skating. Contracts have already been signed and an inventory and equipment audit has been carried out. For fans of winter mini-football, 5 hockey rinks and one neighborhood football field for free access are provided - they are located at the following addresses: 8 Kulikovskaya St., 6 Starokuzmikhinskaya St., 102 Piskunova St., 190 Baikalskaya St., 69 5 Armii St., and 22 Kanskaya St.In October, it is planned to complete the full reconstruction of 2 rinks at 51 Lopatina St. and at 26 Zhukov Avenue, where the perimeter fencing will be replaced with plastic. At the rink of HC Olympia at 327 B Lermontova St., the old wooden boards have already been dismantled, and in the near future fiberglass boards will be installed using sponsorship funds.
In addition, every year there are 77 school sports grounds in Irkutsk, 24 of which will also be flooded with ice this year for training and competitions in bandy at various levels. Also, thanks to the deputy project “Sport into the Yards,” a full reconstruction of the rinks was carried out at School No. 4 in the Yubileyny microdistrict and No. 57 in Novo-Lenino, where universal sports rinks with a polyurethane surface and fiberglass boards measuring 30x60 were installed in place of the old structures.
Based on materials from the press service of the Irkutsk City Duma