MAGADAN, August 15. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin on his way to the Russian-American summit in Alaska has stopped in Magadan, where he will visit the Omega-Sea plant, the Presidential sports complex, the Mayak Park social and cultural center, lay flowers at the monument to the heroic pilots, and hold a meeting with the region head Sergey Nosov.
After visiting the Omega-Sea plant, a unique enterprise for processing and refining fish oil, the head of state will go to the cultural and social center of the Mayak Park, which includes a space for exhibitions and temporary museum exhibitions, a conference hall, a cafe, a tourist visitor center and a workshop area.
Another point of visit will be the universal sports and recreation complex Presidential, the largest in the region.
The sports complex includes a multi-purpose gym for playing sports, an ice arena for hockey and figure skating, a 25-meter pool with eight lanes, a pool complex with water slides, a boxing gym, a hall for practicing kyokushin and other martial arts, and a gym for fitness, table tennis and yoga.
After visiting the facilities, the president will lay flowers at the memorial to the heroes of Alsib (Alaska - Siberia highway). It is dedicated to the feat of the pilots of the First Red Banner Air Division and recalls the heroic episode of the Great Patriotic War. The memorial perpetuates the history of cooperation between the USSR and the US, depicting the moment of a handshake of the Soviet and American pilots against the background of a vertically mounted aircraft wing.
