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Why Mogul Skiers Keep Winning Freeride World Tour Competitions
Former olympic mogul champion justine dufour-lapointe just won her first fwt competition, but it's not likely to be her last..
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From bumps to the big mountain, ex-Olympic mogul skier Justine Dufour-Lapointe just proved that skiing’s specific disciplines are mere suggestions. This week, the French-Canadian athlete took first place during the Freeride World Tour’s second stop in Ordino-Arcalis, Andorra, with a run demonstrating superb big mountain technique.
It’s easy for freeride fans to dismiss mogul skiing as an outdated discipline—how can zipper-lining down a perfectly manicured bump run with perfectly angled kickers compare to charging down gnarly, ungroomed mountain faces? But athletes like Dufour-Lapointe highlight how similar the two actually are.
Watch: Justine Dufour-Lapointe Winning Run – FWT23 Ordino Arcalís Pro
Mogul skiing was, after all, the first “freestyle” event ever to grace the Olympics. Similarly, it absorbed a bit of new school flair when Jonny Moseley launched a groundbreaking “dinner roll” —an off-axis spinning flip, known today as a cork 720—during the mogul event at the 2002 Olympics. Yet, the competitive niche has more rules and textbook tendencies than the Freeride World Tour, involving manicured courses, timers, and rigorous judging guidelines.
On the Freeride World Tour, athletes ski off-piste big mountain faces, laying down technical lines and tricks in high-consequence terrain. The “free” in freeride is vital, as there are few rules during Tour events—no clock is ticking, riders can ski down the venue wherever they damn well please, and do whatever tricks they like. As the FWT itself advertises: “ There‘s a start gate at the summit and a finish gate at the bottom. That’s it. Best run-down wins.”
Plunging into this free-for-all competition format could be daunting for someone used to more structure, but to Dufour-Lapointe, her mogul skiing history isn’t a liability, it’s an asset.
“I think mogul skiing is such a strong base that I have,” she said. “It’s not only the technical part, the skiing part, the jump part, but also the experience I’ve gained competing at such a high-stress level.”
And Dufour-Lapointe isn’t just any mogul skier, she’s an Olympic mogul skier. She first won a World Cup title at age 16, eventually grabbing both gold and silver Olympic medals. In addition to her Olympic hardware, Dufour-Lapointe has collected over 40 World Cup podium finishes. When Dufour-Lapointe’s mogul skiing journey ended in 2022 after the Beijing Olympics, she decided it was time for something new. Later that year, she signed up for the Freeride World Tour Qualifier series before receiving a wildcard invite to the Freeride World Tour itself.
“I think for me, I was ready for a new challenge,” she said. “I think that’s something I learned in the past few years that I love to learn, and I love to grow. And that’s what struck me the most and challenged me the most about going into freeride. I felt like I had so much room to grow.”
Dufour-Lapointe’s arrival and ensuing success on the Freeride World Tour probably isn’t surprising to die-hard freeride fans. For years, the Tour’s female category was dominated by pro skier Hedvig Wessel from Norway. What do Wessel and Dufour-Lapointe have in common?
Mogul skiing.
Before Wessel was a freerider, she too was an Olympic mogul skier. It turns out the combination of bomber fundamentals and freestyle know-how (mogul skiers tend to have killer backflips) lends itself well to competing on the Freeride World Tour. Wessel and Dufour-Lapointe’s success indicates that the Tour, like moguls, is a total skiing litmus test—to win, an athlete needs to fire on all cylinders, from tricks to technique.
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Winning one stop was originally the only item on Dufour-Lapointe’s Freeride World Tour bucket list. Now that she’s ticked that one off, she’s focused on larger goals.
“My next goal is for sure to do the whole season, which is to qualify myself for the final like Fieberbrunn and Verbier,” said Dufour-Lapointe. “Right now, I’m second in the world. But I need another good result to get there.”
And if the Tour’s second stop at Ordino-Arcalís is any indication, Dufour-Lapointe can’t rest on her laurels. Athletes are throwing enormous cork 720s, somewhat reckless cliff drops, and heavy straight-lines in both the men’s and women’s categories, making fans wonder: How much bigger can, or will, these riders go for their shot at the podium?
The 2023 FWT next stops in Kicking Horse, B.C., between Feb. 17-22. After this third stop, only the top riders from each category will move onto the final two stops in Fieberbrunn, Austria and Verbier, Switzerland.
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Off the mogul piste and into backcountry terrain: How Olympic champion Justine Dufour-Lapointe reinvented herself and found new freedom on skis
The Canadian mogul ace joined the Freeride World Tour last season as a wildcard and finished it as a world champion. Her recipe for success? Three cycles of Olympic discipline, a pinch of gratitude, and an insatiable hunger for freedom.
After three Olympic Games as a mogul skier – including two Olympic medals – Justine Dufour-Lapointe was looking for a new challenge.
So, she heaved on a backpack, strapped on some thick skis and went out into the unchartered mountain territory of freeriding.
Being an Olympic champion, however, simply shredding through the snow-covered mountains was not enough for the 29-year-old Canadian. To make her first year of freeriding more memorable, she entered the Freeride World Tour as a wildcard .
Three months later, she was crowned freeride world champion .
"For me, the switch was to do something new, to reinvent myself," Dufour-Lapointe told Olympics.com. "After three cycles of the Olympic Games I felt like I needed to do something to change it up a little bit and I think that freeride was the exact sport that I needed to feel this freedom and to really experience what it's like to ski in mountains.
"The switch was just to fall back in love with being a skier and skiing for fun out there."
Justine Dufour-Lapointe's journey from moguls to freeride
A mogul piste is one of the most groomed courses on the winter sports circuit. Line measures map out the exact locations for the landings and bumps, CAT groomers and shovels are on hand to make the sides perfectly symmetrical.
The fresh powder and unpredictable track of the freeride ski world is quite different terrain.
"It's a total different sport ," Dufour-Lapointe explained about the contrast between moguls and freeride. "You need to read the mountain, you don't have the training beforehand. It's a sport of trying to take the best decision out there with the snow condition. So it's really another technique, having fat skis, longer skis, having a backpack. It's really different."
The backcountry landscape and different equipment are not the only things that the Sochi 2014 Olympic champion, PyeongChang 2018 silver medallist and four-time world medallist had to get used to since switching sports.
Having taken up mogul skiing at age eight in the footsteps of her two older sisters, Sochi 2014 Olympian Maxime and Sochi 2014 silver medallist Chloe , Dufour-Lapointe has spent most of her sports life surrounded by teammates and coaches with similar passion and goals.
That is not the case on the Freeride World Tour , where most athletes don't have a national federation to rely on.
"In mogul you are in a team, you have an association, your surrounding. You have so many people helping you out - coach, staff member, sport psych. But when you come to a sport where it's still not an organised sport that much, with an association and team, you feel so much alone," Justine Dufour-Lapointe said.
"That was really hard at first, to have to build my own team and create my safe space, and to reach out to find some help and to reach out for finding a coach, finding myself people who can help me rise and be able to attain my goal."
While Dufour-Lapointe's team has been scaled down significantly since leaving Freestyle Canada, she said she can count on at least two former teammates to never miss any of her races and always send her a 'good luck' note - her two sisters.
Maxime Dufour-Lapointe retired from mogul skiing in 2018 and is now attending medical school, while Chloe stepped away from the sport after Beijing 2022 and is studying business of fashion.
From wild card to champion: How Justine Dufour-Lapointe excelled in freeride
Despite the many differences between mogul skiing and freeride, Dufour-Lapointe proved that her champion status has no bounds.
Entering the Freeride World Tour as a wildcard, it took the Olympic mogul champion only two races to top the podium . She was victorious during the second tour stage at Ordino Arcalis Pro in Andorra in February 2023, and repeated her winning ways in the March stage at Fieberbrunn Pro, Austria.
When the last event of the season, in Verbier, Switzerland, was cancelled, Dufour-Lapointe experienced the familiar sensation of being called up to claim the top prize.
"It was incredible," Dufour-Lapointe said of winning the world title in her first season on tour. " I had no intention of winning . I wanted to perform well, I wanted to give it all and give my best, but I never thought I would be so successful over only one year. It was beyond my expectation."
Dufour-Lapointe credited her background in moguls as a big part of her success on the Freeride World Tour.
"Having so much technique behind me in my career and having jumped so many times backflips, doing tricks every day and skiing hard, icy bumps, after that, everything was actually kind of easy to ski," she said.
"I was ready in my career to take on that type of challenge of switching sport completely at 28 years old. It was not easy but I think I had enough courage to do it."
The freeride world title was also a redemption of sorts for the Canadian skier whos finished off the podium in her last three major competitions, including a heartbreaking 20th place at her third Olympic Games.
Dufour-Lapointe advanced to the final at Beijing 2022 , but a crash in the second section of the course obliterated all chances of a good placement.
Determined to finish on her own terms, she got up from the fall, recovered her ski pole and hiked up the course before skiing to the finish line.
"Beijing Olympic Games, even though it's still a really hard image to look at, it was something that it was meant to happen to me in some way," she said. "It was an experience that I never lived before to be in front of the whole world and have a crash at the worst moment it could ever happen and I think I learned so much through it and I grew a lot from it as well. I don't define myself anymore about the result but way more about how you tackle challenge in your life."
"It's not the way you crash, but it's the way you get up that people remember. That was a big lesson that I learned from Beijing," Justine Dufour-Lapointe to Olympics.com
Freeriding: A sport for champions and dreamers
With a freeride world title already under her name – the second Canadian skier to finish on the overall Freeride World Tour podium after Olivia McNeill who finished third in 2022 – Dufour-Lapointe is not feeling any jitters about the season ahead, only excitement and gratitude.
"The key for me this season was to focus on the process of learning something new and having fun and that's now my main goal again, to keep it that way, keep it simple, keep it light ," Dufour-Lapointe said. "At the end of the day, we're not saving lives, we're just skiing. And when you're skiing, the only way to properly do it is for you, and ski with passion and excitement and joy.
"That's my main goal after so many years of intense mogul skiing, going to Olympics, a lot of pressure. I feel like the only thing that I want is that freedom of expressing myself out there without any pressure because I'm doing the Freeride World Tour for me and nothing else. It's just for fun, and it's the cherry on top of the sundae to be there and to be skiing the most beautiful mountains in the world."
The 2024 Freeride World Tour season runs from late January to March with six stops on the calendar.
If you're not ready yet to follow Dufour-Lapointe off the beaten path, start by tuning in to the races - and scaling up your dreams.
"What must excite people about freeride is that it's just skiing into nature. Everybody can see themselves skiing around trees or skiing a little powder patch that we all find when we're skiing in a resort," Dufour-Lapointe said. "It's a sport that everyone can dream to do like skiing over and going up with heli-skiing. It's so cool to see and so impressive. The scenery is really breathtaking, but also it's an extreme sport with avalanche, rocks. It's a lot of danger.
"And the way it's judged, it's really simple. It's really how the spectator watched it. If they were thrilled and excited all the way through that means it's going to be a high point. So the more you jump, the more you hit good jumps and you land and you keep going as fast as you can, the more points you get. It's simple and easy for people to watch it and to dream about it as well."
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Anderson had been looking to break through to the top spot on the tour the last couple of seasons, finishing fifth in 2022 and second place in 2021 — the only other time a Canadian has medalled in the 11-year history of the event — despite never winning an individual event before this year's tour.
Dufour-Lapointe finds immediate success
While Anderson's ascent was more linear, Dufour-Lapointe's rise to the top of the freeride discipline came just a year after making the switch from a decorated career in moguls.
Dufour-Lapointe, 28, won gold for Canada at the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi, and a silver medal in PyeongChang in 2018 before finishing 20th last year in Beijing after crashing out. She was also FIS moguls world champion in 2015, adding two more bronze medals in 2013 and 2017.
But in this treacherous new discipline, it took her just two events to find the top of the podium when she did so in Andorra in February, launching yet another successful athletic foray.
"I have been working so hard the last few months, but now I am feeling so proud of all the hard work and self-belief," Dufour-Lapointe said. "To finish the season with this title means the world to me.
"This was my dream coming into freeride, but I never thought it would be possible this fast. I am so happy I made the switch to freeriding, and I am excited for what's next — this is just the beginning."
Dufour-Lapointe became the second Canadian to place on the Freeride World Tour podium in the women's ski category, joining Olivia McNeill, who finished third last year.
McNeill took fifth this season, while American Molly Armanino and France's Megane Betend placed on the podium with a silver and bronze medal respectively.
Marcus Goguen, 18, rounded out the Canadian results by placing ninth in the men's ski standings, with the highlight of his season being a silver-medal performance on home soil at the Kicking Horse Golden BC Pro in February.
Valentin Rainer of Austria topped the men's ski standings, while Ludovic Guillot-Diat of France won gold in the men's snowboard category.
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Justine Dufour-Lapointe joins Freeride World Tour
The Freeride World Tour has announced Justine Dufour-Lapointe as a season wildcard in the ski women’s category. The three-time Olympian and two-time medallist is the most decorated athlete to join the FWT roster for the entire season and therefore she will be able to bring a wealth of competitive experience to the Tour, which will prove vital as she sets her sights on the FWT crown.
Justine hails from Quebec and is the first Quebecer female athlete to compete on the FWT. She started mogul skiing at eight years of age, before turning her attention toward competition in her teenage years. It didn’t take long for her to make international headlines, finishing second in the FIS World Cup moguls in 2012, at just 17. At the 2014 Sochi Olympics, she became the youngest freestyle skiing champion ever at the Winter Games, winning gold in the moguls alongside her sister Chloé in second place. Four years later, at the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics, she secured another medal, this time a silver in the same event. Together with her Olympic success, she has over 40 FIS World Cup podium finishes and multiple medals in the World Championships, making her one of the most decorated Canadian skiers of all time.
Justine has now retired from mogul skiing to focus on freeriding. She spent the winter in the Southern Hemisphere training in New Zealand and competing in FWT Qualifier events, narrowly missing out on a podium in a strong field at the 2023 The North Face Frontier, presented by Winter Games NZ 4*. Can she convert her extensive mogul skiing experience into FWT success, and add some more silverware to her trophy collection?
“I’m feeling super excited and so proud to join this amazing community and family that is the FWT. I can’t wait to connect with the mountain like never before, and I am thrilled to start this new adventure and grow into an even better skier. My number one priority is to enjoy myself while skiing!” – Justine Dufour Lapointe, FWT Competitor
This week it was announced that he Freeride World Tour is making a milestone in its history thanks to the merger with the International Ski and Snowboard Federation, which is acquiring FWT properties . Justine will be be with new and old family!
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PARK CITY, UTAH - JANUARY 13: Justine Dufour-Lapointe of Team Canada prepares for her run for the Women’s Mogul Finals during the Intermountain Healthcare Freestyle International Ski World Cup at Deer Valley Resort on January 13, 2022 in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)
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Justine Dufour-Lapointe , the 2014 Olympic moguls champion, is leaving the event to compete in freeriding, a non-Olympic skiing discipline.
“After three Olympic cycles and 12 years on the World Cup circuit, I felt that I needed to find a new source of motivation and had to push my limits even more so I can reach my full potential as a skier,” the 28-year-old Montreal native said in a social media video, according to a translation from French. “Today, I am starting a new chapter in my career. ... I want to perfect myself in another discipline. I want to connect with the mountain differently. Above all, I want to get out of my comfort zone in a way I’ve never done before.”
Dufour-Lapointe said she will compete on the Freeride World Tour, a series of judged competitions described as :
There‘s a start gate at the summit and a finish gate at the bottom. That’s it. Best run down wins. It truly is that simple. Think skiers and snowboarders choosing impossible-looking lines through cornices and cliff-faces and nasty couloirs. Think progressive: big jumps, mach-speed turns and full-on attack. Think entertaining.
Dufour-Lapointe has retired from moguls skiing, according to a Freeride World Tour press release, though she did not explicitly say that in social media posts Tuesday.
At the 2014 Sochi Winter Games, Dufour-Lapointe denied American Hannah Kearney ‘s bid to become the first freestyle skier to repeat as Olympic champion. Older sister Chloé took silver in a Canadian one-two.
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«First acquaintance with Moscow» – a 2.5-hour city tour in the center of Moscow
This Moscow city tour starts on the Theater Square, past Lubyanka Square and the KGB-building, then through Kitay Gorod district and Varvarka Street, past the world-famous St. Basil’s Cathedral. Then it goes across Zarjadje Park, over Red Square at the Lenin Mausoleum, the GUM-department store and towards the Historical Museum. We walk through the Alexander Garden.
Time: by arrangement, daily Duration: 2.5 hours Price: 17 $ Students and children: 6 $ Language: English
A 3.5-hour car/bus tour of Moscow.
This is the best tour of Moscow city as all the important sights are visited. I am your Moscow city guide who will walk you through the city explaining the charming history of the city. This tour begins with picking you up from the hotel. 3 breaks are offered for photographing.
First, we will visit the most famous riverside streets and bridges in the center of the city with the most beautiful views of the Kremlin and the Moskva River (e.g. the Kremlin embankment and the Great Stone Bridge).
The first photo break is made at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. We then pass by the district with numerous museums, Prechistinka Street and the district with numerous medical areas.
We again stop at the Novodevichy Convent, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site on the other bank of the Moskva River to click pictures.
Then we visit “Sparrow Hills” where you can enjoy a bird’s eye view of the city of Moscow from the observation deck. Then there are the skyscrapers of Moscow-City, the Kutuzov avenue, the New Arbat, Tverskaya Street, the world-famous Bolshoi Theater, the KGB building and Varvarka Street. Here there are ample spots to click pictures.
We then drive past the Kremlin again and finally reach Red Square. We take a short tour of Red Square and say goodbye in the Alexander Garden.
Time: by arrangement, daily Duration: 3.5 hours Price for a group: 170-200 $ (depending on the number of travelers) Language: English
Metro tour – daily
Palaces for ordinary people – that was what Stalin promised to the people when the construction of the Moscow Metro began between the World Wars. The communist dictator hadn’t promised too much. No other underground system in the world can boast such spectacular architecture – chandeliers, decorations, stucco, paintings on the walls – each station is individually designed. No wonder that Moscow residents love their metro. I will guide you through the bustle of one of the busiest subways in the world and show you the most beautiful stations Moscow city has.
Time: by arrangement, daily Duration: 2 hours Price: 21 $ Students and children: 17 $ Language: English Included in the price: Metro tickets / the guided tour
Tour of Communist Moscow – every day
After the Communist October Revolution in 1918, Moscow became the capital of the Soviet Empire and was the center of socialist orbit for more than 70 years. This left its mark on Moscow, even if the USSR disintegrated more than a quarter of a century ago. The city streets are full of remnants of the communist regime and the Cold War. This is a walking tour where I will show you the most exciting places in Soviet Moscow: from the notorious KGB headquarters, also known as Lubyanka to the Karl Marx Monument to small hidden remains from the time of hammer and sickle. You will also learn about Stalin’s Great Terror political campaign and the system of the GULAG and how the USSR, the communist Russian republic, became modern Russia.
Time: by arrangement, daily Duration: 2 hours Price: 21 $ Students and children: 17 $ Language: English Included in the price: the guided tour
Alternative Moscow Tour – daily
Explore the unseen Moscow with your Moscow private guide and discover a range of sights during this alternative walking tour. Away from the main tourist spots (in the central district of Kitay-Gorod), just a short walk from Red Square and St. Basil’s Cathedral, you suddenly find yourself in one of the trendiest districts of Moscow. This place not only has trendy cafes and green squares, but here you can see the most beautiful spray works (according to Albrecht Dürer), hangout-places of the youth and hipsters, as well as learn what Moscow looked like in the 19th century. Here you will also learn exciting and even bloody stories about famous gangsters, eccentric business people and legends like the wandering preacher Rasputin, who is known in Russia either as the “holy devil” or the mad monk. To learn a little more about Moscow’s culture, this is the tour for you. On my alternative tour, you will get to know Moscow away from the tourist hotspots. This tour is of 2 hours duration and you will experience the following on the tour:
- St. John’s Hill, a quiet oasis right in the center, where time has stopped as it did in pre-Communist times
- Khokhlovka Art Center, where Russian hipsters and street artists hang out
- Samoskvorechye District where you can see beautiful streets and hear stories from old Moscow
Time: by arrangement, daily Duration: 2 hours Price: 21 $ Students and children: 17 $ Language: English Included in the price: the guided tour / tram ticket
Kremlin tour – daily (closed on Thursday)
With its 20 towers and high walls, the Kremlin rises imposingly over Red Square. This world-famous fortress with its area of 28 hectares is home to over 800 years of Russian history. Described as the eighth wonder of the world, this historic fortress complex is the principal symbol of Russia that sits on the banks of the Moscow River. Today the Kremlin still harbors numerous secrets and has palaces and cathedrals, surrounded by Kremlin Wall. The current wall was constructed between the 15 th and 16 th centuries, but the original wall was made of wood around the year 1147. The Kremlin Wall became an important symbol of Moscow’s importance in the Russian Empire. This top tourist destination attracts millions of people every year and there are various sights to see. With my Kremlin tour, you will see the oldest square in the city in the heart of the Kremlin, the once largest cannon in the world and the scene of numerous dramas – from Ivan the Terrible and Napoleon to Stalin. You cannot miss this unique experience.
An advance booking and prepayment for tickets are required.
Time: by arrangement, daily (closed on Thursday) Duration: 2 hours Price on request Students and children: on request Language: English Included in the price: Kremlin tickets / the guided tour
Moscow pub crawl – Friday / Saturday
Experience the real nightlife of Moscow with my Moscow Pub Crawl and enjoy 4 pubs/bars plus 4 welcome shot drinks. Move from one bar to another and get to know travelers from around the world as well as the locals. Play fun adventure games and contests in addition to getting perks in the bars. Between the bars, move from one place to another on foot. The routes are organized as such that you will walk no more than 10 minutes between the bars. Visit the most exciting events, parties, concerts, and dance in the bars. Moscow Pub Crawl is a tour that you will never forget.
This tour runs every Friday and Saturday evening at 8 PM and you need to bring along your passport or an ID card, comfortable shoes, and wear smart casual clothes.
An advance booking and a small prepayment are required!
Time: by arrangement, daily Duration: 4 hours Price on request Language: English Included in the price: the guided tour, 4 shot drinks
1.5-hour boat trip on the Moskva River.
Taking a boat tour in Moscow on the Moskva River is a very pleasant experience. It allows you to know the city from a totally different perspective and admire the beautiful bridges. In this 1.5-hour river trip, you will sail past many beautiful sites in Moscow, so you can take the best photos to commemorate this day. The ship makes several stops on the way. The trip starts from the Ustinskiy Bridge near Sarjadje Park and ends at the Kiev train station.
On this Boat Trip, you can see sights such as: the former Imperial Education House, Sarjadje Park, the “flowing”, “floating” bridge, the most beautiful view of the Kremlin, the Great Stone Bridge, the legendary House on the Quay, the Christ the Savior Cathedral , the monument to Peter the Great on the ship, the central sports arena Luzhniki, the Sparrow Hills, 240 meters high Lomonosov University, the numerous architecturally spectacular skyscrapers of Moscow-City, the Novodevichy Convent, the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs etc.
Time: by arrangement, daily Duration: 1.5 hours Price on request Language: English
A military tour – riding on tanks in Stupino (Moscow region)
Russian Military is one of the largest military forces in the world formed in 1992. With my Military Tour experience what it likes to be in the Russian military, shooting guns, ride the Tank T-34 and various models of German tanks from the Second World War, as well as armored personnel carriers and vehicles. You will also shoot from the AK-47 and another combat weapon.
The tour will begin with your private tour guide Moscow in a Soviet army van accompanied with some tasty snacks and tea for a tasty start. Upon arriving, you will have to put on the army safety clothing and climb the Russian armored vehicles. The tour will take you on the noisy, smoky tank, driving through mud roads. All participants will get the chance to drive the tank which is coordinated by the Russian military.
Time: by arrangement, daily Price on request Language: English
Alexander Popov
Welcome to Russia! My name is Alexander, I was born in Moscow and I'm a passionate tour guide. I want to share my passion for Russia and my hometown with you. On my website you will find useful information to make your individual trip to Russia as interesting as possible.
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Free Tours Moscow - Daily. Practical information: «First acquaintance with Moscow» - a 2.5-hour city tour in the center of Moscow. Practical information: A 3.5-hour car/bus tour of Moscow. Practical information: Metro tour - daily. Practical information: Tour of Communist Moscow - every day.
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