RUS - RUSSIA
ORYOL / OREL / ОРЁЛ
Description Circuit that on May 31st and June 1st 2008 hosted first event of Russian Touring Car Championship. I have no info about the track used.
Location Oryol / Orel - Oryol Oblast - Tsentralny / Central
Location Oryol / Orel / Orël / Orjol
Latitude - Longitude + 52°58'19"     + 36°03'52"
52.971944     36.064444
UTM Coordinates X = 302889.715  -  Y = 5873182.273  -  Zone 37U
Aerial photo / Map (*) Aerial photo / Map (*) OpenStreetMap  -   Aerial photo / Map (*) Google Maps  -   Aerial photo / Map (*) Bing Maps  -   Aerial photo / Map (*) Flash Earth  -   Aerial photo / Map (*) Wikimapia  -   Aerial photo / Map (*) New Kosmosnimki  -   Aerial photo / Map (*) Yandex
Altitude AMSL 183 m - 600 ft
Inauguration May 31st 2008
Closing June 1st 2008
Designer  
Sources and links (Translation) (**)
(1) English ForumForum --> Europe --> More countries --> RUS - Russian Circuits [ENG]
(2) Burkina Faso alexeyzapf1.narod.ru/sport/rtcc/2008/RTCC_2008.htmWebsite with track maps and more than 1500 photos of the 2008 event
(3) Burkina Faso ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Touring_Car_ChampionshipWikipedia
(4) English www.milermeter.com/?r=2854188Track layout
(5) English www.milermeter.com/?r=4279822Track layout
(6) German www.puru.de/rutw08.htmlPuru’s & Franz Page

(*) NOTE: a complete and detailed view of the circuit can be found (if available) on Street View by Google Maps and/or Bird's Eye and 3D views by Bing Maps for Enterprise (former Microsoft Virtual Earth): both can be reached using their own link in Aerial photo / Map cell.

(**) For on-line not-English speaking sources, click on each small flag and you open the corresponding Google Translator page with automatic translation.

Oryol / Orel / Орёл
Description Circuit used for the race, as photos published on this website demonstrate
Years 2008
Direction Anticlockwise   Anticlockwise
Progetto Proposal NO
No longer operational  
Car Circuit YES
Motorbike circuit  
Type Street course
Inauguration May 31st 2008
Closing June 1st 2008
Last update of this page February 9th 2011
Info last update  
Designer  
Distinctive points  
length 1500  m 4921  ft 0.932  mi   (1)
length 1447  m 4748  ft 0.899  mi Calculated from aerial photo (*) (4)

Oryol / Orel / Орёл
Description Layout reported by Russian Wikipedia, but it doesn’t fit with the one used for the race. Gregory Golyshev (my first contributor, as reported on my forum) reminded that first proposal was different, but he had no details: maybe was he thinking about this layout?
Years 2008
Direction Anticlockwise   Anticlockwise
Progetto Proposal Proposal  YES
Proposal not developed YES
Car Circuit YES
Motorbike circuit  
Type Street course
Inauguration  
Closing  
Last update of this page February 9th 2011
Info last update  
Designer  
Distinctive points  
length 1811  m 5941  ft 1.125  mi Calculated from aerial photo (*) (5)

Oryol / Orel

Due to technical problems, temporarily it’s no longer possible to see the circuits on Google Maps embedded in the current page.
This feature will be restored as soon as I figure out how to do (any help would be appreciated!)

See this track layout with Google Earth
(milermeter.com can be used in your browser, without installing anything; Google Earth is a program that must be installed in your computer)
(Map shown here above can show at the same time all eventual layouts drawn. If you want to see only some of them, please go to Google Maps or Google Earth, by clicking on its own link)


Oryol / Orel / Орёл (2008)

Due to technical problems, temporarily it’s no longer possible to see the circuits on Google Maps embedded in the current page.
This feature will be restored as soon as I figure out how to do (any help would be appreciated!)

See this track layout with Google Earth - milermeter.com
(milermeter.com can be used in your browser, without installing anything; Google Earth is a program that must be installed in your computer)
(Map shown here above can show at the same time all eventual layouts drawn. If you want to see only some of them, please go to Google Maps or Google Earth, by clicking on its own link)


Oryol / Orel / Орёл (2008 proposal)

Due to technical problems, temporarily it’s no longer possible to see the circuits on Google Maps embedded in the current page.
This feature will be restored as soon as I figure out how to do (any help would be appreciated!)

See this track layout with Google Earth - milermeter.com
(milermeter.com can be used in your browser, without installing anything; Google Earth is a program that must be installed in your computer)
(Map shown here above can show at the same time all eventual layouts drawn. If you want to see only some of them, please go to Google Maps or Google Earth, by clicking on its own link)



Updates
Date Track layout Years Description by Map by Thanks to Note
February 9th 2011     Guido de Carli Guido de Carli Lutz Huppenbauer Update Description with map
May 25th 2009   2008 Guido de Carli Guido de Carli Gregory Golyshev Update Description with map
February 12th 2009   2008 Guido de Carli   David Griac (jpm) New Description without map
Not all eventual updates issued in last years are already visible in this list
 
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