ULAN-UDE, May 21. /TASS/. The longest ecology trail in the Far East - more than 20.9 km - will open near Ulan-Ude in autumn, 2025, said Sergey Gashev, First Deputy Mayor of Buryatia's capital, Ulan-Ude.
"The 1.3-meters-wide trail will run on compacted soil. Its total length is 20.907 km. The contractors have started working on it. The commissioning date is October 1. That is, the opening [is expected] in early October," he said.
The trail is broken into five sections of various difficulty levels, including sections near the Ethnographic Museum of the Trans-Baikal Region's Peoples, near Mount Orlinaya, the Snezhinka ski base, and from the Oriental Medicine Center to the Youth Spring area. "There will be iron ladders and special decking for inclusive tourism, four entrance groups, viewing platforms, 26 recreation areas with benches, interactive stands, photo zones, and more than 1,000 navigation racks," the official said.
'Trails of the Far East'
The ecological route in Ulan-Ude's suburbs, at the exit from the city region towards the eastern shore of Lake Baikal, is a projects under the Trails of the Far East program. Maria Badmatsyrenova of the Corporation for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic told TASS the program had been launched to develop active recreation and ecology tourism. "The program's purpose is to ensure the safety of tourists and to protect the environment. Additionally, we are speaking about stimulating small businesses, about companies that create facilities near the routes," she said.
The Trails of the Far East program includes 18 projects in Kamchatka, Chukotka, Trans-Baikal, Buryatia, Primorsky, Khabarovsk, Amur, Magadan regions. The new routes, that altogether will be more than 118 km long, will include such tourist attractions as volcanoes, petroglyphs, mountain ranges and scenic harbors, capes, beaches, historical monuments.