More than 3 million people ride snowboard in Russia, and it is one of the most popular sports. Khibiny was included in the top 10 resorts of Russian snowboarding this year according to the users of the tourist portal TurStat.
"About 10 thousand people took part in the survey and, of course, it is important for us that the ski resorts of the Murmansk region are in a worthy place in this list, for example, we scored even more votes than Elbrus in Kabardino-Balkaria," commented Alexander Eliseev, chairman of the Murmansk Region Tourism Committee.
The top 10 also includes Sheregesh in Kuzbass, the mountain resort "Rosa Khutor" in Sochi, Sviyazhsky Hills in Tatarstan, Sorochany and Volen / Stepanovo in the Moscow region, Elbrus in Kabardino-Balkaria, Igora in the Leningrad region, Dombay in Karachay-Cherkessia and Mount Belaya in the Sverdlovsk region.
The regional Tourism committee also stressed that more than 30,000 skipasses were sold in the Murmansk Region during the New Year holidays alone. It is important to note that the resorts complied with all sanitary and epidemiological requirements and were able to receive tourists without allowing the spread of coronavirus infection.