Haryzont Outdoors Club
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The Haryzont Outdoors Club ( - literally horizon, skyline) is a student outdoors club based on the Maxim Tank Belarusian State Pedagogical University
. Founded in 1966 it helps students take advantage of outdoor opportunities in Belarus
and neighbour countries. Nowadays the club is a center of touristic and sport life of the university. It facilitates activities (including exhibitions of photographs, touristic rallies etc), disseminates information and creates a community of outdoor enthusiasts in and out Belarus.
s: hiking, biking, canoeing, rafting, boating, rock-climbing and sport activities like mountaineering
, orienteering
. The itineraries go through the Khibiny, the Carpathian
, the Urals
, the Caucasus
, the Crimean, the Sayan
, the Himalayas
mountains, Karelia
and of course Belarus.
Maxim Tank Belarusian State Pedagogical University
Maxim Tank Belarusian State Pedagogical University also known as BSPU is a university in Minsk, Belarus. It specialises in teacher training of mathematics, chemistry, physics, psychology, geography, history, languages and others for primary and secondary schools.-History:Minsk State Pedagogical...
. Founded in 1966 it helps students take advantage of outdoor opportunities in Belarus
Belarus
Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
and neighbour countries. Nowadays the club is a center of touristic and sport life of the university. It facilitates activities (including exhibitions of photographs, touristic rallies etc), disseminates information and creates a community of outdoor enthusiasts in and out Belarus.
Activities
The main activities are the different kinds of campingCamping
Camping is an outdoor recreational activity. The participants leave urban areas, their home region, or civilization and enjoy nature while spending one or several nights outdoors, usually at a campsite. Camping may involve the use of a tent, caravan, motorhome, cabin, a primitive structure, or no...
s: hiking, biking, canoeing, rafting, boating, rock-climbing and sport activities like mountaineering
Mountaineering
Mountaineering or mountain climbing is the sport, hobby or profession of hiking, skiing, and climbing mountains. While mountaineering began as attempts to reach the highest point of unclimbed mountains it has branched into specialisations that address different aspects of the mountain and consists...
, orienteering
Orienteering
Orienteering is a family of sports that requires navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain, and normally moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a specially prepared orienteering map, which they...
. The itineraries go through the Khibiny, the Carpathian
Carpathian Mountains
The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians are a range of mountains forming an arc roughly long across Central and Eastern Europe, making them the second-longest mountain range in Europe...
, the Urals
Ural Mountains
The Ural Mountains , or simply the Urals, are a mountain range that runs approximately from north to south through western Russia, from the coast of the Arctic Ocean to the Ural River and northwestern Kazakhstan. Their eastern side is usually considered the natural boundary between Europe and Asia...
, the Caucasus
Caucasus Mountains
The Caucasus Mountains is a mountain system in Eurasia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea in the Caucasus region .The Caucasus Mountains includes:* the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range and* the Lesser Caucasus Mountains....
, the Crimean, the Sayan
Sayan Mountains
The Sayan Mountains are a mountain range between northwestern Mongolia and southern Siberia, Russia.The Eastern Sayan extends from the Yenisei River at 92° E to the southwest end of Lake Baikal at 106° E...
, the Himalayas
Himalayas
The Himalaya Range or Himalaya Mountains Sanskrit: Devanagari: हिमालय, literally "abode of snow"), usually called the Himalayas or Himalaya for short, is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau...
mountains, Karelia
Karelia
Karelia , the land of the Karelian peoples, is an area in Northern Europe of historical significance for Finland, Russia, and Sweden...
and of course Belarus.