"Heroes' Race" to be held in Kazan
21 May 2015, Thursday
"Heroes' Race" – a mass sports event, in which participants overcome an obstacle course designed for training special units of the Russian army, – will be held on the grounds of the Kazan Higher Military School.
The participants will have to overcome a ten-kilometer track with numerous obstacles, including the fiery assault course, river crossing, underground tunnels, barbed wire, suspension bridges and climbing wall.
The event includes a realistic and completely safe military simulation. The participants of the competition will be "shot at" with blanks from Kalashnikov rifles and machine guns, tank and infantry fighting vehicles guns. Ambushes and smokescreens will be set up, and for more realistic effect combat aircraft will fly overhead.
In 2014, "Heroes' Race" in Moscow attracted more than 10 thousand participants. This year, the event will expand its boundaries and is expected to bring together more than 100 thousand people in eight cities of Russia: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Kazan, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Vladivostok and Novorossiysk.
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