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Ruin Until 1993

Vyshhorod

Vyshhorod luge track

Fedotova Hill, Vyshhorod, Kyiv Oblast · Ukraine

Burnt out after the luge school closed; its steel frame still runs down the hill.

No mapped line survives for this track yet.

Real track · Published figures

Last raced
1993

Press accounts give 1993 for the closure; a journalist recalls training there as a child around 2000, so the dates are disputed.

Explore the track

The Slidensa model, drawn over the real ground. Follow the run into every curve.

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Game model · Two-man bobsleigh reference run. These lengths, speeds and loads come from Slidensa’s physics and can differ from the real track’s published figures.

Length
642m
Drop
58m
Curves
10
Top speed
109km/h
Peak load
2.8g
Reference run
0:28.47
Curve-by-curve guide · 10 curves

The three curves in lime pull hardest in the reference run.

  1. Curve 1 15° left Kink 1.0 g · 37 km/h
  2. Curve 2 56° left 1.2 g · 57 km/h
  3. Curve 3 25° left 1.3 g · 76 km/h
  4. Curve 4 60° right 2.0 g · 90 km/h
  5. Curve 5 15° right 1.4 g · 97 km/h
  6. Curve 6 42° right 2.2 g · 98 km/h
  7. Curve 7 80° left 2.7 g · 107 km/h
  8. Curve 8 25° left 2.1 g · 108 km/h
  9. Curve 9 55° left 2.6 g · 107 km/h
  10. Curve 10 27° right 2.8 g · 105 km/h

The story

Vyshhorod had a large wooden luge track, built in Soviet times on Fedotova Hill above the Kyiv Reservoir as a training base for lugers. Lilia Ludan, who raced at four Olympics, trained here. After the Soviet collapse the luge school shut and the complex closed. Accounts differ on when the track burned: about six months later in one telling, a few years later in the district administration's. Its steel frame is still on the hill.

  • An amateur film dated 1986–87 by its maker shows the track whole in winter, with a big banked curve and floodlight masts above the frozen reservoir.
  • Lilia Ludan, who raced at four Olympics, trained on this track.

Today

A steel skeleton with scraps of wooden decking runs from the hilltop almost to the shore, overgrown. The VyshHora ski slopes beside it closed in 2020, and the hill is now an informal viewpoint over the reservoir.

See the place on OpenStreetMap
Part of the old luge base at Vyshhorod in 2012.
Part of the old luge base at Vyshhorod in 2012. Photo: Sasha_M, CC BY 3.0.
The burnt-out frame of the Vyshhorod track in 2010.
The burnt-out frame of the Vyshhorod track in 2010. Photo: Artemka, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The skeleton of the Vyshhorod track in snow, January 2012.
The skeleton of the Vyshhorod track in snow, January 2012. Photo: Serg.Nem, CC BY 3.0.