"Baltic star" cycling club (Saint-Petersburg, Russia) presents

Super-brevet "Vologda-Onego-Ladoga 2008", 1200 km

During 4–8th of July 2008

• organized by Baltic Star, Saint-Petersburg
• distance: 1216 km
• time limit: 42–90 hours
• registration before the start: 3rd of July, 2008, Vologda
• start: 4th of july, Vologda, Kremlyovska ploschad' (Kremlin square)
• finish town of Vidlitsa, "Stevie" hostel
• qualification: 200km brevet during 2007–2008 season
• age limit: 18 years and older
• registration fee: payed before 01.05.2008 — 2000 RUR (60 EURO), late registration — 2500 RUR (75 EURO)
• track file of the route .gpx, 500kb (UPDATE 17 jun 2008, format gpx is supported in OziExplorer starting from ver. 3.95.4j and in MapSource)
• other map
• detailed map 10km map (JPG):
• part 1, 0.8 Mb
• part 2, 1 Mb
• part 3, 2 Mb
• 2km map for OziExplorer :
• Vologda region, 60 Mb
• Vologda region, .map
• Karelia region, 52 Mb
• Karelia region, .map
• Maps for MapSource and GPS Garmin:
• Vologda region, 300 Kb
• Karelia region, 6 Mb
• (LINK UPDATE 17 jun 2008)

 12 reasons why you have to ride this brevet:

• beautiful nature of north-west Russia and Karelia especially
• great ancient russian architecture
• well planned route
• great roads
• minimum of traffic
• minimum of dirt roads
• white nights
• two largest european lakes
• supporting cars all the way
• a lot of checkpoints with sleeping places
• many cyclists from Europe
• many cyclists from various russian clubs