An Olympic-class oval where mass skating takes the evening and weekend hours
The Ural Lightning ice palace in Chelyabinsk is named after the six-time Olympic champion Lydia Skoblikova and went into service on 28 December 2004, on the 40th anniversary of her triumph at the 1964 Innsbruck Games. After Moscow's Krylatskoye, it was the second standard 400-metre speed-skating track with artificial ice under a roof in Russia, and at 222 metres above sea level it is the highest covered speed-skating rink in the country.
The building is also used by hockey players, figure skaters, curlers and short-track skaters, and has hosted the 2010 World Mixed Doubles and Senior Curling Championships, a 2011 speed-skating World Cup stage and the 2015 European Speed Skating Championships.
Evenings and weekends belong to mass skating, with 600 pairs of skates, protective kit and qualified instructors. Two unfrozen zones hold seating, a skate-changing area and a buffet that opens during the sessions.
Admission, rentals and arrival details, researched from official rink information. Source checks stay current for 30 days.
Mass-skating tickets cost RUB 300 for the 13:30 session and RUB 400 for the 16:00 and 19:00 sessions, children under 14 pay RUB 150 and RUB 200, and a concession price for pensioners and large families is RUB 150 or RUB 200 for adults and RUB 75 or RUB 100 for children.
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Skate hire is RUB 200 a session, a protective kit RUB 100 and sharpening RUB 300, with a RUB 1,500 deposit if you leave no document.
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Tickets go on sale one hour before each session, and a child ticket needs a document proving the child's age.
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A family session on Sundays from 12:00 to 13:00 admits one adult and two children under 14 for RUB 300, and the concession price does not apply to it.
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