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Extreme sports lovers will particularly enjoy Crimea if they go for the Sept. 10-12 weekend.

One of the most spectacular as well as most demanding events in Ukraine, Prime Yalta Rally, will take place there.

For the sixth consecutive year Yalta Rally is bringing Ukrainian car racing into international spotlight.

The Yalta Rally is a round of the European Rally Cup organized by FIA, the international federation of motorsport, and the Ukrainian Rally Championship.

The latter hopes to hold a World Rally Championship event in Ukraine some time in the near future.

A compact series of well-organized, high-speed, tight and twisty 600 kilometer tarmac stages with blind crests, flat-out kinks around Ai Petri mountain and villages nearby, will make the rally a real challenge for 50 racing cars.

Some 200,000 rally lovers are expected to attend the event this year. Minibuses are to deliver guests to special viewing platforms placed along the motorway.

The opening and closing ceremonies will take place on the picturesque Yalta embankment.

The opening ceremony is scheduled for 5 p.m. on Sept. 10.

Singers Iryna Bilyk, Arktika aka Olga Gorbacheva, Aleksandr Ivanov, Svitlana Loboda, and Lyapis Trubetskoy band are to entertain the guests each evening.

Prime Yalta Rally-2010 (Crimea, Yalta embankment, motorway around Ai Petri mountain and the villages nearby), Sept. 10-12. For more details in English, see: http://www.yaltarally.com/?lang=en*