Tourist Club Names a Peak After UrFU's 100th Anniversary

09:39, February 12, 2020

The peak is located in Eastern Kazakhstan

The tourist club "Romantik" based in Ural Federal University in past January made two difficult ski trips along the Sarymsakty ridge in Eastern Kazakhstan. This ridge is poorly explored and tourists rarely walk it, yet many peaks there are not untouched and have no names.

The participants of the tourist club raised the flag of Ural Federal University over the Peshekhodny Pass (2720 meters) and the highest point of the district - the peak of Berkutaul (3373 meters).

“One of the peaks with a height of 2900 meters, the one we made our first ascent, we decided to name Centenary of UrFU in honor of the upcoming anniversary of the university,” said the head of the tourist group Evgeny Makarov.

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Tourist club UrFU "Romantic", founded in 1951, has many years of tradition. University students and graduates make difficult mountain, skiing, water and cycling trips in the most remote corners of Russia and abroad.

Ural Federal University is one of the leading universities in Russia founded in 1920. UrFU is located in Yekaterinburg, the capital of the Ural region, an economic, industrial, scientific and cultural center of Russia. The university is the project office of the Ural Interregional Research and Education Center "Advanced Industrial Technologies and Materials" designed for solving tasks of "Science" National Project.