Muscovites swim in the heated 50-meter outdoor pool all year round. Swimsuit Chika is on the U.S. sanctions list, but that doesn’t stop him from developing action. A large outdoor hot tub will be opened for Christmas.
Moscow
Granular a blizzard stings the bare upper back. There are six degrees of frost, but outside there is a splash in the 50-meter swimming pool.
At the Moscow outdoor pool in Tchaikovsky, the water in the pools is heated to a pleasant 28 degrees all year round. There are plenty of visitors despite the harsh weather.
On a weekday evening in December, the tracks of a large pool are a terrible journey. In the smaller 25-meter pool there are water sports and swimming coaching. The jumping tower is also open.
From the water, you can sometimes get up to the steam room by the pool to a “Finnish” sauna, on the benches of which the Russians have long felted sauna hats on their heads.
The saunas are pampered every day with a different steam scent – this time enjoying the aroma of Siberian pine. The glass walls offer panoramic views of the pools and the twinkling winter evening.
Could this be the case in Helsinki?
In Helsinki The shortness of the bathing season is worried on the benches of the sauna at the swimming stadium every autumn, when the stadium closes after less than five months in September.
Requests to extend the opening hours even further into the autumn have resonated with deaf ears, until Helsinki finally decided in November to carry out a survey on the year-round use of the Swimming Stadium at the request of the townspeople.
In recent years, outdoor swimming pools and saunas have been built in Helsinki and elsewhere in Finland with both public and private funding, but the swimming pools are mainly open only during the summer.
The Helsinki Sea Pool, a private sea spa, is open all year round. However, high prices limit the user base.
Drug stadium year-round opening hours are a cost issue for the city. It is estimated to cost at least € 300,000 to € 400,000 per year.
Vice President of Tchaikovsky Andrei Nefyodov does not want to reveal the maintenance costs of the Moscow swimming pool but says they depend very much on the weather. In cold winters, like last year, the water has to be heated more.
According to Nefyodov, the operations of the now privately owned Tchaika are entirely financed by visitor revenues. The city or any other party does not provide support.
Different length there are five thousand loyal customers who have acquired membership. The average number of visitors per day is 1,500, with more in the summer season.
Bathing is much more expensive than, say, at the Swimming Stadium. A one-time visit costs 2,000 rubles, or about 24 euros. It would be best to get an annual membership, when the price for one month will be about 66 euros.
Prices include unlimited use of Tchaikovsky’s facilities, ie swimming, two different saunas, hydromassage, cold pool, gym, gym and yoga. A 25-meter hot tub is currently being built, which will open by Christmas.
Children have their own pools and swimming schools. Tchaikovsky also has a restaurant and beauty services. Nefyodov says that the range of services is to be further expanded.
At the time has a somewhat similar past to the Swimming Stadium originally built for the 1940 Olympics. The stadium belonged to the city for a long time, but it was privatized in the early 1990s.
Chaika was completed in 1957 for the World Youth and Student Festival, which was a major event for left-wing youth. The festivals attracted a couple of thousand Finns to the city. Chaika later served as a competition venue for the Moscow Summer Olympics.
Chaika has a tortuous Ownership History, but today it belongs to a company called Sojuz Marins Grupp. It is a Russian conglomerate that says on their website focus especially on film.
According to the company, its mission is to strengthen the state’s spiritual and patriotic foundations, Russia’s socio-economic development and the creation of a globally competitive Russian film. In addition, the company operates in the restaurant sector and agriculture, among others.
One One of the former owners of Tchaikovsky is a bank in Moscow, a subsidiary of the state-owned VTB bank. As a result of the ownership, the swimming pool was placed on the US sanctions list in September 2016.
In Russia, the imposition of sanctions on the swimming pool aroused indignation and amusement, as Chika did not even belong to the bank at that time. The Moscow bank had had time to sell it to its current owner in April.
Director of Public Relations in Tchaikovsky Snežanna Južakova says being on the sanctions list does not affect and has never affected the operation of the swimming pool in any way.
Muscovites are so accustomed to year-round outdoor bathing that the closure of Tchaiková for three months at the start of the corona pandemic and for a week last November was a horror.
Engineer Viktor Ivanov swims and saunas 3-4 times a week. In the winter, he enjoys refreshing by standing in his swimming trunks in the snow, as this time.
“This is very healthy and hardens the body. It doesn’t get sick. ”
Pensioner Svetlana Sinitsyna belongs to a gang that has been visiting Tchaikovsky regularly for at least ten years.
“I swam in any weather. I like to swim especially when it snows. That’s when it’s very beautiful. ”
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