2024
2025
report presentation
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festival history:
1st Baltic Rally was held from 3 to 5 September, 2021 with great success, despite the postponement due to the current epidemiological situation in the country! In 3 days, it was visited by 18,000 people. High quality Festival confirms the Grand Prix of the most prestigious federal event tourism award Russian Event Awards 2021!
The second Festival took place from July 21 to July 26, 2022 and was attended by 22,000 people! The highest quality of the Festival is confirmed by the awards and commendations received:
1. Russian Event Awards 2022 in the nomination “National Event of 2022”;
2. Diploma of the International Tourism Festival-Competition of video, photo and animation “DIVO EURASIA” in the nomination “Tourism Products”;
3. Acknowledgement of the Governor of the Leningrad Region A. Drozdenko “For a great contribution to the development of event tourism in the Leningrad Region;
4. Acknowledgement of the Head of the Municipal Administration of the Vyborg District V. G. Savinov “For the great contribution to the development of event tourism for the successful organization and holding of the II International Motorcycle Festival ‘Baltic Rally 2022’ in the city of Vyborg”;
5. Diploma of the winner of the contest “The Best in Tourism of the Leningrad Region” in the nomination “The Best Tourist Event”;
6. Diploma of the First International individual-team competition of video projects of tourist destinations in Russia and other countries of the world “Divo Mira” for the 1st place in the nomination “Tourist Event”, subnomination “Event Tourism”.
This year the festival went beyond the North-West region for the first time! A patriotic motorcycle rally “Vladivostok - Vyborg” was organized as part of Baltic Rally - and the festival broke a record! It was the longest motorcycle rally in Russia! They covered the way of 10500 km!
From July 18 to 21, 2024, with the support of the Governor of the Leningrad Region Alexander Drozdenko, the 4th Baltic Rally motorcycle festival was held in the medieval town of Vyborg. This year it was attended by 34,000 guests from 55 cities of Russia and 10 countries of the world.
An important part of the festival was its patriotic component, as the President of Russia Vladimir Putin said: “The future of each of us depends on what we do today”, so “Baltic Rally” together with the “Leningradsky Frontier” Foundation held an action during the event, in which everyone could contribute to the future of Russia by supporting the participants of the SVO.
This year within the Festival there were 2 motorcycle rallies: the Brest - Vyborg Brotherhood Motorcycle Rally in honor of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus and Vyborg from fascist invaders and the Southern Column “from sea to sea” - the Sochi-Vyborg Motorcycle Rally, which was led by the General Media Partners of the Festival - “MOTORCITY PRODUCTION”.
The first festival day started on July 18 with a meeting of motorcyclists of both columns in St. Petersburg, who accompanied by Leningrad Chapter H.O.G. followed a beautiful route along the coast of the Gulf of Finland to Vyborg, for a unique Pre-party in the knight's style at the walls of the ancient Vyborg castle of the XIII century.
The program of the Pre-party turned out to be very authentic: medieval contests delighted and surprised the guests, who could fight with knights in real armor in a mock battle, the walls of the Vyborg castle gave charm to the performance of musical groups with medieval rhythms and set the tone for feudal karaoke.
On July 19, the opening ceremony took place on Market Square, where the Governor of the Leningrad Region, Alexander Drozdenko, announced the rebranding of the festival against the backdrop of the festive change of the signboard: now Baltic Rally has officially changed its spelling to the Cyrillic alphabet.
In the following days the main program of the Festival unfolded on the Market Square, where this year the apple had nowhere to fall. More than 50 activities for all ages and tastes: brutal exhibition of author's motorcycles Custom Bike Show and unusual vehicles Crazy Wheels Show, high-speed Drag Racing stand, Wheelie Machine, power show, motorcycle helmet contest, master classes on airbrushing and painting attracted special attention. Fashion Show “Heart Movement” from director Vera Garmashova - beautiful girls performed for charity, talking about the importance of donation. Sports tournaments: hockey, tennis, billiards tournament and even dominoes were organized by motorcycle clubs to promote a sporty lifestyle. There was also presented a salon of exclusive motorcycles “Motocollection”, where unique motorcycles Ducati, ZILLERS, Arch Motorcycles in in piece instances were collected. You could immerse yourself in the history of motorcycle culture with the Museum of Motorcycle History “MOTORARITY” St. Petersburg Semen Trofimov, which was open to the public all days. New activities this year - a tattoo contest and studio, Enduro Cup, as well as races on classic motorcycles - “Engine Race”. A unique Hospitality Zone worked for the festival guests - motorcyclists!
The rich excursion programs were in great demand - full groups of tourists shuttled around the city, as well as the Gulf of Finland and Monrepo Park several times a day. In addition to activities, there were traditional locations on the Market Square: a motorcycle club zone, souvenir shops, and a food court. For the youngest participants a children's zone with trampolines, zorbing and beautiful ethnic music was organized and brought to the Lenin Park.
The year 2024 was declared the Year of the Family, in this connection 4 motorcycle weddings took place at the Festival. Famous motorcycle traveler Oleg Kapkaev and record-breaking racer Mikhail Mikhin signed their brides right on the stage of the “Baltic Rally” at the Round Tower! This unique chance was the first time in the history of Vyborg, when not only the solemn part, but also the official registration itself was off-site.
Also for the first time a dating club “Let's go together” was created: ladies and knights on iron horses had an opportunity to socialize, get acquainted and try their luck to find their soul mate.
“Baltic Rally” opened for guests new historical places of Vyborg district of the Leningrad region, so within the festival there was an interesting Motorcycle Rally - ‘Nobel Poker Tour’ - to the places of residence of the famous Nobel family with a visit to the Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Primorsk.
Representatives of the business community took part in the traditional “Business Conference” of the members of the business club “Baltic Rally”, dedicated to the issues of business development in the Leningrad Region by motorcyclists. The Conference was also attended by: Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Leningrad Region - Chairman of the Committee for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage Vladimir Tsoi and Chairman of the Committee for Culture and Tourism of the Leningrad Region Evgeny Tchaikovsky.
On Friday, representatives of the Book Beacons of Russia movement took the stage of the Motor Festival and read author's poems dedicated to the Baltic Rally. The Governor welcomed the guests and shared his thoughts: “We want to show everyone that bikers are not only about riding motorcycles. They are also very creative individuals. That's why we opened the 'Vyborg Book Beacon' here. It's a popular format that we want to spread throughout the region.”
The culmination of the motorcyclists' solidarity traditionally became the Solemn Motorcycle Parade “To the State Border” - thousands of motorcyclists in one powerful column rode along the route, meeting people with Russian flags on the roadside, someone played musical instruments, cries of victory were heard, people were happy and prepared for the meeting. It is not insignificant that the Parade was personally led by the Governor of the Leningrad Region A. Drozdenko. Also at the beginning of the column rode a rock musician, the headliner of the Festival - Garik Sukachev.
On July 20, on the stage of “Baltic Rally” the drawing of a motorcycle of the legendary brand Royal Enfield took place. As a result, if all the conditions were met, Sergey Eliseev - a listener of the General Information Partner of the festival - “Autoradio” - received the coveted key right on the stage, in front of thousands of viewers.
On Sunday the traditional Immortal Motorcycle Regiment started, motorcyclists proceeded to the Memorial Complex “Paschin's Field” headed by Archpriest Vyacheslav Kharinov, where they set up information stands telling about this place, laid wreaths and flowers.
All the days of the Festival the mood was created by the best Russian Tribute bands performing world hits of such groups as Metallica, The Beatles, AC/DC, Queen, Pink Floyd and Kino.
On July 19, the Market Square was filled with fans of Elena Vaenga, a singer beloved by many people, and under the hit of the Soviet and Russian rock band “Flowers” “We Wish You Happiness” fireworks shone in the sky with different colors.
On Saturday, July 20, the authors of the undisputed hits of the late 90s - the group “Old Buddy” - pleased the guests with their performance. And the main highlight and surprise for the guests of “Baltic Rally” was the performance of Garik Sukachev, a famous rock and roll musician of the country, who moved freely around the Market Square all the days of the Festival. Together with the Stone Star Campanella Orchestra, he filled Vyborg with his mood and performed well-known hits.
The Festival was held with the support of the Government of the Leningrad Region, the Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives, the Committee for Culture and Tourism, the Information and Tourist Center of the Leningrad Region, motorcycle clubs “DOM” and Leningrad Chapter H.O.G, within the framework of the national project “Tourism and Hospitality Industry”.
The title Sponsor of the Festival for the third year is JSC “Tretiy Park” - one of the oldest transportation companies in Russia.
The partners of the “Baltic Rally” were the following companies: “Baltika Brewery” LLC with the brand - “Baltika 3 Non-Alcoholic”, “Gazprom LNG Technologies”, LLC “NOR-MAALI”, JSC “LOESK”, Network of active parks “Kingwinch”, “Fort Konstantin”, ‘E-Cross’ Company, Extreme Lab Company, VSK Insurance House, ITF ‘LenTurboRemont’, Finprom-Engineering LLC, Baltic Construction Company - Development (BSC-Development), NWRK, Imperial Porcelain Factory!
General information partners of the Festival were “ Autoradio” and “Radio Zenit”, General Media Partner - “Motorcity” company. Online radio station “MotoRadio”, TV channel “LenTV24”, TV channel “Vyborg TV”, “Gazeta Vyborg”, Fontanka.ru, magazines “Peterburgsky Telezritel”, “MOTO” and “5 koleso”, newspaper “Peterburgskie vedomosti”, “Motovoz”, LLC “Makton”, Internet portals: “Motobratan”, “MotoRossiya”, “Pognalie the world is waiting”, “Dalnyak RF”, “PRO Vyborg”, “kobyak.com”.
The festival will be remembered for its special energy and rich content, as evidenced by numerous admiring reviews.
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