URAM Extreme Park

Kazan, Russia

About the city. Kazan is one of the most developed cities in Russia towards sport. The city has hosted two Bandy World Championships, in 2005 and 2011, the World Summer Universiade 2013, the World Championship in fencing in 2014, the Aquatics Championship FINA 2015, 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup, 2018 FIFA World Cup and other international competitions of various levels.

Goal

There are several goals. First, create sports facilities necessary to prepare extreme athletes for high-level competitions. Secondly, open free public space for urban recreation in the city centre. Moreover, the park was created as a part of a program aimed at improving the ecological situation in the city and increasing biodiversity.

Implementation period. The park was opened in 2020 on Youth Day on the embankment of the Kazanka River.

Fact

URAM Extreme Park is the largest extreme park in Russia (almost 2 hectares). According to one of the goals, natural materials were used for extreme objects. For example, the facade of the airpark is made of larch.

Solutions

The park is located under the Millennium Bridge and consists of eight zones: a skate park, two pump tracks for experienced athletes, a workout and parkour area, a streetball park, an airpark, and a training zone. It was important for the architects to create a public place so that both amateurs and athletes could spend time there with the same quality and freedom. Moreover, it was necessary to properly landscape the territory in the very centre of the city.

URAM Extreme Park has become a popular public space where people come every day. So about 13 000 guests visit the park every month, while 4 000 athletes train in the park regularly. It is located in the middle of the pedestrian route between Gorky Park and the Kremlin.

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Team

The City of Kazan, the Ministry of Youth Affairs of the Republic of Tatarstan, Legato Sports Architecture.

Timeline

In 2017 Kazan activists Marat Gazizullin, Naila Zaripova and Denis Kim proposed establishing an extreme park under the Millennium. In 2018 the BMX community presented the idea to the Minister of Youth Affairs of the Republic of Tatarstan, Damir Fattakhov, and he supported the idea. Activists of the URAM (Urban ARts Movement) joined the project, and in 2019 asked Rustam Minnikhanov, the President of the Republic of Tatarstan, to support this idea. The park implementation was included in the global concept of the Kremlin Embankment development of the architectural bureau Orchestra.

In 2021 the indoor part of the park was opened (about 8,000 square metres). There are two floors of extreme zones and cultural spaces open to everyone (a modern music centre, skate shop, a gallery, a lecture hall, a cafe and so on).

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