Sports and tourism festival "Big Altai. Great Altai" starts in Mongolia

From August 12 to 19, Mongolia will host the international tourist and sports festival "Big Altai. Great Altai».

"The program includes 17 international and national sports, competitions in which will be held at several venues selected by the project organizers as part of preparatory expedition trips to Mongolia," the Altai Territory Department for Tourism and Resort Development reported on its website.

The opening ceremony will take place in the city of Bayan-Ulgiy, there will also be competitions in motorcycle tourism, Nordic walking, rafting (sprint, parallel sprint, long race), mountaineering (skyraning on Buken-tau), fishing (Hovd river), as well as demonstration performances in motorcycle paragliding.

The main venue of the festival will be Lake Tolbo-Nuur. There will be competitions in sailing, mountain, combined, motorcycle tourism, fishing, Nordic (Scandinavian) walking, rock climbing, urban sports, arm wrestling, tug of war, wrestling "quresh", bukhasha tartys, as well as demonstration competitions in national sports and paragliding.

"The largest delegation is expected from the Russian Federation - about 200 people. Geography of participants: Altai and Krasnoyarsk Territories, Novosibirsk and Kemerovo regions, the Republic of Mari El and the city of Moscow," the message says.

The festival will be attended by representatives of the International Sports Tourism Federation and the Sports Tourism Federation of Russia.

"Big Altai. Great Altai" unites sports in a natural environment. The event takes place every two years on the territory of one of the four states united by the Altai Mountains system: Russia, Mongolia, China and Kazakhstan.