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(23 Dec 2023)

HZ RUSSIA FOREST ICE RINK

SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS

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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mistolovo, Leningrad region, Russia - 12 December 2023

++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Various of people skating on ice rink in forest, coloured lights
2. Wide of ice rink and Ferris wheel
3. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Gennady Musiyenko, General Director of all-season Okhta-Park resort:
“There is a feeling of magic, some pleasant childhood feeling. When I watch guests leaving the resort and sharing their impressions, (they say) it feels like the adults are back in their childhood. These are the wonderful emotions that are needed.”

4. Various of people skating on ice rink in forest
5. Various of workers with machine clearing ice
6. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Gennady Musiyenko, General Director of all-season Okhta-Park resort:
“The rink area is about 5,500 square metres, and a powerful system (referring to the cooling system of the artificial ice rink) gives us the opportunity to work even at above-zero temperatures. Therefore, our skating rink is traditionally the first to open in St. Petersburg. And traditionally it can close much later than others. The capacity of the system allows this to be done.”

7. Various of people skating on ice rink
8. Close of strings of lights
9. Pan from Christmas tree covered with snow to people skating on ice rink
10. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Gennady Musiyenko, General Director of all-season Okhta-Park resort:
“This is truly an idea that continues to improve all the time. This is not something uniform, when some project is drawn, and that’s it. We listen to what our guests say, change the lighting every year, and transform it every year so that those unique emotions that are conveyed at the skating rink are constantly present.”

11. Various of visitors taking pictures on ice
12. Wide of people taking photos next to mini farm with Highland cows
13. Close of Highland cow
14. Wide of visitors taking photos on ice
15. Pan of people skating
16. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Yelena (on left) and Alexandra (on right), visitors:
Alexandra: “There is a New Year's mood, lights, and an unusual skating rink format.”
Yelena: “I have never seen such lighting of trees anywhere, really. It's very beautiful. It's definitely worth coming back here.”

17. Various of visitors skating
18. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Kirill (on left) and Kristina (on right), visitors:
Kirill: “This skating rink is quite big, there is space to speed up, there is space to skate. It attracts and fascinates.”
Kristina: “We're taking a break from the bustle of the city.”

19. Various of visitors skating

STORYLINE:
LEAD-IN:

A fairytale ice rink in a snow-covered pine forest is delighting visitors at a winter resort north of St Petersburg.

Icy paths take skaters meandering through the trees and amongst thousands of colourful lights.

STORYLINE:

Deep in the pine forests of the all-season Okhta Park resort, a little bit of magic awaits.

Skaters wind their way though a winter wonderland as icy paths snake through the trees.

There's nothing quite like the experience of skating outdoors.

The park's general director, Gennady Musiyenko, says the ice rink evokes feelings of youth:

“There is a feeling of magic, some pleasant childhood feeling. When I watch guests leaving the resort and sharing their impressions, (they say) it feels like the adults are back in their childhood. These are the wonderful emotions that are needed,” he says.

Musiyenko says the ice rink covers an area of some 5,500 square metres and uses a powerful cooling system:









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