Russia.Park
Perk`s Field, Kensington Gardens,
London
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RUSSIA.PARK is the home of Russian National Park during London Olympics 2012 and a summer festival-style fun park, spread over a 10,000m2 area in Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park. It will represent Russian culture, cuisine and sport, including cameos by some of the Russia’s leading Olympians and performances by folk artists from all the regions of Russia.
RUSSIA.PARK incorporates the great Russian and British park tradition with a rich array of Russian cultural experiences. Picnic zones, performance spaces, sport activities area, pavilions, and exhibitions delight all the senses. Relax as the Russian people offer you their world-famous hospitality.
RUSSIA.PARK will operate from 10am – 7.30pm from the July 27 – August 12.
RUSSIA.PARK is
- The Headquarters of Russian Olympic Committee
- Media Centre designed to offer the influx of Russian and international journalists a comfortable, hi-tech, fully facilitated environment from which to report on the games
- Home of House of Russia, a hospitality zone with impressive conferencing and gala dinner facilities that will play host to some of the world’s most influential leaders in business, politics and sport in London’s most important business, cultural and social events.
- Sports Zone that will host leisure activities, friendly matches, and provide the kids and the young-at-heart with an opportunity to kick around a ball with some of the world’s foremost sporting heroes.
- Unique art and performance stage from every corner of Russia, hosting the exotic Kuban Cossack Choir, the Rossiya Ensemble and many more.
- Rock Arena hosting the infamous Red Rocks Festival to showcase Russian rock scene to the rest of the world.
- the sister of Sochi.Park, a high-tech winter wonderland in the middle of a London summer, providing a high-tech visitor experience that takes guests through Russia to Sochi, the next Olympic host city via high-tech interactive digital experiences including a 4D chairlift ride up the Krasnodar mountains.
Sochi.Park will operate from 10am – 9.30pm from July 26 – August 12 in Albert Memorial Lawns, Kensington Gardens, London
More information can be found on www.russiasochipark.com
