Bratsk Братск

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K-Point:

40 m

Further jumps:	K20
Plastic matting:	no
Year of destruction:	2006
Status:	destroyed
Coordinates:	56.173060, 101.596079 ✔

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Ski jumping was more popular in Bratsk than in the regional capital Irkutsk, although of course not as popular as tobogganing. In the city centre, near Malyshev Street, a ski jumping hill complex consisting of 20 m and 40 m facilities was built probably in the 1980s. The initiator and builder was Nur Najipovich Salavatov, who also worked as a coach and organiser of sports events. Training continued on the hills until the beginning of the 21st century, but in 2006 it was decided to dismantle them. The problem of high groundwater levels in the outrun could not be successfully solved and since the 1990s there was a constant trouble to secure adequate funding for the operation of the facilities. Interestingly, for some time the project of moving the construction to the Pikhtovaya mountain was considered, where training sessions of both ski jumpers and tobogganers had already been held and, in the absence of a roofed area for dressing, bonfires were lit to keep the athletes warmer. Ultimately, the project was not realised.
Twenty-some kilometres away, in the Energetik settlement, there was also a 30-metre ski jump. Its description can be found in the short story 'In the same land' by Valentin Rasputin, published in 1995: "In earlier years, when they were still trying to make life more colourful, a sports ski jump was built on the precipitous edge of a ravine in our area. And they jumped, springing into the air, and flew at bird's-eye height, bent forward, seated on skis, and, landing, smashed the snow and long down the slope. Boys from all over the city would gather on the ski hill and it was always loud, fun and raucous. Then, when life started to open up like a solid wound, the hill was abandoned and its metal truss now sticks out naked and dead, like a skeleton." This is how the hill looked in the 1990s and today it is no longer possible to see the image that V. Rasputin described.

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