The opening day of the GUM-rink on Red Square is a common holiday. And they celebrate it, putting on skates, too, all together: funny schoolchildren with mothers, serious businessmen, famous actors, musicians and glorified athletes. And even the most star skater is not immune from the fact that the newcomer does not accidentally die.
City rollers are in all major cities - New York, London, Paris. But to imagine a rink in Moscow on Red Square for another 10 years ago it was almost impossible. Recently, many new sites have appeared in the city. They say, this year 123 skating rinks with artificial ice will open. But the gum roller is still special! Red Square, Multicolored Lights, Wonderful Music, Cathedral of Basil Blessed and almost 3000 sq. M. Million ice straight at the Kremlin walls.
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The gum skating rink on Red Square opens the seventh year in a row. The ice does not melt up to plus 10 degrees: 65 km of specially laid tubes with refrigerant support low temperature. As a result, the rink on Red Square will work almost until mid-March. Every day from 10 am to 24 hours. The price has not changed for several years: a ticket for adults costs 350 rubles. on weekdays and 500 rubles. On weekends, but a children's ticket cost only 100 rubles.
Honored Trainer in figure skating Tatyana Tarasova came to the gum roller with a grandson, novice hockey player. Tatyana Anatolyevna distributed autographs, gave an interview: "City rollers have a rockefeller center, and in London Tower, but our in Red Square is the most beautiful! Here I have a feeling of homeland, I come here many times per season. The environment that is only here - the Cathedral of Basil Blessed, the Kremlin wall, the stars, the historical museum, the lights of the GUMA - all this creates some kind of unique atmosphere, not inherent in one rollet, nor with us abroad. I am very proud that in Russia there is such a rink on Red Square! "
"On Ice - Alena Babenko and Ilya Averbukh!" - It would be possible to declare at the beginning of the first session of the gum rink. The star duet went on the ice without any ceremony and immediately joined the overall movement.
Ilya Averbukh - with "Ice Motion" on Red Square from the very beginning, he opened the first gum rink 7 years ago. Since then, the skates again entered the fashion, the rinks have become more, but the winter season Ilya Averbukh opens only here! Alena Babenko admitted that he was very missed on the ice. This season has never risked. It is on the gum rink that she is going to ride all winter, because there is no fabulous place in Moscow.
Ksenia Alferova. .
The swirl swears on the ice of Saxophonist Igor Butman. Journalists who wish to talk to the musician remains only to hope that Igor Butman will arrive himself, because only professional hockey players can sob. The musician really drives up to the television chambers, gives a short interview, says that skates and hockey are a very important part of his life, and again is carried at huge speed.
Ksenia Alferov ice skating does not circle and does not develop speed. The successful participant of Ice Show, Ksenia can "go around" any, but patiently "puts on the skates" of their wards with Egor Bourieov's charitable foundation "I am." The actress first led the guys on the gum rink and is now very proud of their success on ice.
The legendary figure skater, the multiple champion Irina Slutskaya, after a pair of circles is ready to objectively estimate the ice: for a street rink - it is very high quality. "But the most important is the atmosphere. If you set up on a positive, "says Irina Slutskaya," you are fine, if you don't work for a negative. " And here is very cool! "
Irina came to the rink with his son. He is completely independently and fearlessly in a circle. To lead it from the rink, only the grandmother was already at the very end of the session.
But Lisa Arzamasov on the gum rink for the first time. The popular actress, the participant of the television project Ilya Averbuch that evening was leaving on tour. They arrived at the rink with mom right with suitcases: "How is it a pity that you have to leave now! Excellent impressions! Be sure to come here many times this winter. "
Alice Grebenshchikova shared: for her, a gum rink - two fairy tales at once in one. "For me, the Red Square was unacceptable, as well as skates," the actress told. "And it seemed to me: who knows how to skate any celestials, like those who can easily walk around Red Square." Therefore, when it was time to put on the skates of the son, Alice solidically decided - this will happen on the gum rink! And she performed his decision.
Antonio Marras. .
But who is exactly the first time on the gum rink, so this is a fashion designer Antonio Marras. He came to Moscow on the eve to submit to his customers a collection of couture dresses in the Petrovsky Passage, but after the defile and he was on the rink. Already late in the evening, Antonio Marras came to the rink with his wife Patricia. True, she did not dare to go on ice, but Antonio Marras, a native of sunny Sardinia, fearlessly stood on his skates. The fashion designer was not going to enter too far, but Alena Babenko and Ksenia Alferov took the designer on the bars, more precisely under his hands, and helped to get comfortable with Moscow ice. At the end of the session, the fashion designer left the skating rink the most latter.
"It happens once in life! For the first time to get on skates, and even on Red Square! It is fantastic!" - he admitted.
So the season is open! The gum roller is waiting for guests every day until mid-March from 10 am to midnight.