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It is unlikely that skiing would have become so widespread if one had to walk up the mountain. Since the first lifts appeared, their design has been constantly improved, and the cable cars themselves have become more comfortable and safe. the site visited the Rosa Khutor ski resort, where Alexey Petrovich Tretyakov, deputy head of the cable car service, gave us a tour and talked about how a modern ski lift works, using the example of the Olympia cable car, which takes resort guests to Rose Plateau (1170 meters above sea level).

"Olympia" is a gondola-type cable car, consisting of two stations - the upper (drive) station, where the engine and backup generator are located, and the lower (bypass) station. First we went up inside the drive station. Personally, I've always been curious about what's inside.

For those interested in the details of how the cable car works, please refer to cat.

The video shows the operation of the mechanism that uncouples the cabin from the rope and slows down the motion of the cabin. At 0:50, the moment when the cabin enters the station is shown in slow motion.

At (1:09) the same moment, but at maximum speed (6 m/s). When the cabin flies into the station at full speed, a special lever with a roller hits the guides (red inclined rails) and goes down, accordingly the clamp rises and gradually releases the cable.

The first wheels (in the video with black tires), which press the cabin suspension system, rotate at the speed of the cable. On the 7th wheel, the clamp is completely released (1:14), and the cabin no longer moves with the help of a rope, but with the help of a conveyor of wheels. Each wheel has pulleys (1:07), and with the help of a reduction belt drive, each next wheel spins a little slower than the previous one, gradually reducing the cabin speed to a minimum (1:27). At the same time, the rope continues to spin at the same speed (at the exit from the station, on the contrary, at each wheel the speed increases to the speed of the rope).

Each cable car is also equipped with an anti-collision system to prevent the cabins from colliding with each other. In the video at 1:29, you can see how the sensor that tracks the location of the booths lights up; it sends signals to the computer that controls the distance between the booths.

Sensors that monitor rope clamping. The red plate bends upward when the cabin clamp passes under it, and two independent sensors record the force of the rope clamp.

Clamp sensors

The readings from the sensors are sent to a computer, which will immediately stop the cable car if the cabin clamp does not grip the rope tightly enough. In the photo below there is a computer screen on which you can see sensor readings and threshold values ​​at which the personnel are notified and the cable car automatically stops. If this happens, the driver will reverse the cabs, unload people and check the mechanism. If the cabin is clamped to a normal value, then the work will continue; if there is an emergency again, then the cabin will be driven into a repair box, and it will be carefully checked. In any case, the computer will not release the cabin with weak pressure on the line.

You can see how the doors of the cabin open in principle, the system is the same - inclined guides into which a lever with a roller fits, the lever rises, and the doors open using a hydraulic mechanism. When leaving the station, the guides lower the lever.

Next we went to the room where the cable car operators work. The operator's workplace is located behind a large window, through which the disembarkation and embarkation area is visible and is equipped with a computer, duplicate means of communication with other cable car stations (wireless radio and wired telephone), and a hydraulic brake lever of the cable car (the red thing on the right in the photo).

Behind the operator there are several large cabinets with equipment.

Buttons for planned (soft) stop and emergency (sharp) stop of the cable car engine, as well as other buttons

Touch screen computer controlling the cable car

Cabinet interiors

The cable car control system is equipped with a modem, and at the request of the ski resort, if problems arise, the manufacturer (Doppelmayer) can connect and remotely monitor the operation of all system components. Alexey Petrovich also said that every year all cable cars undergo mandatory inspection - the cabins are loaded with sandbags, load tests are carried out and the cable car is tested in the most severe conditions. The rope itself also undergoes regular inspection, which includes a test called magnetic flaw detection, which is similar to an x-ray. This process looks for damage, deformation and broken wires, and checks the rope for increases or decreases in diameter. Particular attention is paid to checking the splice, this is where the rope is connected, in other words, it is a knot that connects the ends of the rope, which makes it a single ring. But this is another story that requires a separate story.

In order not to encounter the fact that the cable cars are closed during a visit to the resort, preventive measures.

In order to better examine the structure of the supports, we rode in an open technological cabin.

A wind system is installed on some cable car supports; in case of a wind of 15 m/s, it will slow down the speed of the cabins to 1.5 m/s and inform the cable car staff about this with a sound alarm and an indication on the control panel. And when the wind speed increases to 17 m/s, the speed of the cabins will decrease to a minimum of 0.3 m/s. The maximum road speed is 6 meters per second.

Support with wind system

To prevent the rope from jumping off the rollers, each support has sensors that detect this situation, and traps next to the rollers that will prevent the rope from falling.

Rope traps on support

On negative supports (where the cable passes under the rollers), the traps are also inverted accordingly.

Negative support

The Olympia cable car differs from other cable cars in Krasnaya Polyana in that one of its sections passes over the gorge at an altitude of 126 meters. A very beautiful view opens up from here. In winter, sometimes I had to ride in the same cabin with beginners who panicked a little on this section. Like, if the electricity is turned off, how will they remove us from here? I knew in general terms that they would film it somehow, but I only found out how exactly now - at the outer supports on both sides of the gorge there are winches with a cable. If necessary, the rescuer climbs the support, uses a suspended bicycle to ride along the rope to the cabin hovering above the gorge, uses a special device to loosen the cabin clamp by 2 millimeters so that it can slide along the rope, hooks the winch cable to the cabin and pulls the cabin to the lift support, from where it can be removed people are already easy enough. As you can see, there is absolutely no reason to worry.

For a photographer, of course, riding in an open cabin is much more convenient; nothing blocks the excellent view from the lift :-)

Below, at the bypass station, everything is about the same, only without the emergency drive. To the left of the boarding area there is a garage for cabins (when there are not many guests at the resort, in order not to load the cable car with excess weight, some of the cabins are removed and driven here). For example, in winter there are a maximum of 77 cabins on the line, but today only half are 38. The cabins are also being repaired here.

Garage

This is what it is, a cable car.

November 5th, 2012

I continue to fulfill requests from . Today's topic for a post is from soullaway :

"..to ask about all the cable cars in our country))"

I started thinking about what I could tell you about such a very general topic. In total, as of 2010, there are about 400 cable cars at 109 resorts in the European part of the country and 49 in the Asian part. a list of some of them. And an abandoned cable car in Penza, for example. Imagine how many of them are active, idle and abandoned all over the country! Here I seem to inadvertently draw your attention, ask the topic of the post more narrowly and more specifically, because it is impossible to grasp the immensity :-)

Many of the most interesting cable cars are no longer in our country, but for example in Ukraine - for example on Ai-Petri. I rode... very impressive!

In general, the world's first cable car appeared in the Swiss Alps in 1866. For a long time, the Swiss cable car was almost the only one in the world. Massive interest in this type of transport appeared only a hundred years later. you can see the most interesting cable cars in the world. But our topic is the cable cars of Russia. So, we think further.

I invite you to see one of the latest cable cars in our country and one of the most unique! Suitable? Go...

Opened on February 9, 2012 Russia's first passenger cable car, built between the cities of Nizhny Novgorod and Bor.

And a Nizhny Novgorod blogger will help us with this dimfoto with his amazing report.

That's how it all started. The centers of Nizhny and Bor are separated by the Volga, and the distance between them is about 3 km. This
in a straight line... If you travel by highway, the distance between the cities is 27 km. It takes a lot of time to travel from one city to another, and car traffic on the Borsky Bridge is difficult. But this road should significantly reduce travel time between cities.

The customer of the project is JSC “Ropeways”, the architects are LLC Architectural and Construction Association “Russian House”.

In the world, ten cable cars are used as urban passenger transport. The Nizhny-Bor cable car will become the longest. The distance between the terminal stations will be 3658 m, including 1336 m above the Volga. There are longer routes, but they are located in ski resorts and are not considered public transport.

A special feature of the structure will be the passage over the navigable part of the river. It will be made without supports and will be 882 m long. The uniqueness of the Nizhny Novgorod cable car is that for the first time it will connect two cities on opposite banks of the Volga: as a rule, such roads operate within the same locality.

“The investor of the project is OJSC Nizhny Novgorod Ropeways, created after the conclusion of an agreement between the regional government and the world leader in designing ropeways, the French company POMA,” said Vladimir Ivanov. — The document was signed by Governor Valery Shantsev and POMA President Jean Gautier at the International Commercial Real Estate Exhibition MIPIM-2008 in Cannes. The founders of the company were the government of the Nizhny Novgorod region (67.93% of shares) and the mayor's office of Nizhny Novgorod (32%). 0.07% of the shares are owned by the General Department of Improvement of the City of Bor.

The volume of investment in the creation of the road (without stations) will be about 550 million rubles, the payback period is 5-7 years, said Vladimir Ivanov. The cost of the end stations is estimated at around 100 million rubles. It is planned that the trial launch of the Nizhny Novgorod cable car will take place in December 2009, and regular service will begin in April-May 2010.

European, Russian, and Nizhny Novgorod companies are participating in the implementation of the project. The order for the supply of equipment was received by POMA. The road project is being carried out by the Moscow CJSC Gortekhproektpostavka; the Nizhny Novgorod transport company CJSC Sovfrakht NN is engaged in the transportation of oversized cargo from Belgorod and France. A general contractor will be determined in the near future - applications have been submitted from six Nizhny Novgorod construction companies and one from out of town.

The cable car supports are manufactured by Energomash CJSC (Belgorod) - Production of metal structures.” As the director of the company for sales of metal structures, Konstantin Teterin, told the Exchange, the company won the tender, beating foreign and Russian competitors: “We presented a more impressive “Reference of deliveries” of complex objects,” he says. — Among them are the structures of the Lokomotiv stadium in Moscow (3000 tons), power transmission towers across the Amur to the Bureyskaya hydroelectric station with a height of up to 191 m (2340 tons). There is also experience in manufacturing supports and traverses for the cable car of the Krasnaya Polyana resort near Sochi (65 tons) and supports for the cable car in the village. Terskol on Elbrus (123 tons). Another plus is the offer of hot-dip galvanizing and finishing painting of structures, guaranteeing high-precision manufacturing of parts. The POMA company and the designer JSC Gortekhproektpostavka already knew us as partners. The contract for the production of ten supports was signed in April 2009. Drawings of the supports in the three-dimensional modeling program were made by the metal structures department of the Energomash engineering center.

The Nizhny Novgorod company Russian House LLC was entrusted with designing the stations. The areas of the stations are approximately the same, but from a design point of view they are different. Special attention was paid to the station on the Nizhny Novgorod side; since the building will be located in a spectacular location near the square. Hay. Borsky Station will appear between the Alisa Center for Extracurricular Activities and residential buildings. It is possible that cafes, shopping places, and parking lots will open on the territory of the stations, and private investment will be attracted for their construction.

The average daily passenger traffic between Nizhny and Bor is 21,000 people, but it increases in summer and decreases in winter. It is expected that the cable car will initially transport 1,000 people per day. Up to 55 cabins can be installed on the track, accommodating 8 people. The business plan includes a ticket price of no more than 50 rubles. It will be tied to the cost of a ticket on the Nizhny - Bor bus.

The cable car will be in demand: “On weekdays, many Nizhny Novgorod residents and Borsk residents move across the Volga to work and study. On Friday evenings and Monday mornings, the passenger traffic is replenished with vacationers. From spring to autumn, the population of the Borsky district almost doubles: elderly Bor residents who live in Nizhny in the winter and in their native villages in the summer, and summer residents, for whom the cable car will be especially convenient if a regular bus service is created for it, come. Negotiations have already been held with the administration of the Borsky district on the organization of bus routes from the final station to the surrounding villages. The movement of the booths is also comfortable because it completely eliminates waiting time: walk up and go. The road will relieve congestion on the only bridge across the Volga, and there is reason to believe that it will not lose its relevance even with the launch of a new bridge to Bor from Podnovye.”

It looks like almost everything is ready here for stretching the cable on which the booths will hang.

The motor that will drive the cable seems to be located on the bore side, and here there is a mechanism for tensioning the cable.

The blue box in the background appears to be a hydraulic pump.

To the left, workers are building a garage to store the cabins.

According to Alexander Shchagin, deputy director for territorial planning at the Research Center Land and City LLC, “young people under 30 will actively use the road, while older people will prefer traditional trains, buses, and ferries in the summer. Aerophobia should not be discounted. If a strong wind blows and there is bumpiness, the elderly will have a hard time. What if the cabins stop in the middle of the river? European skiers often hover over the slopes, but such things are a novelty for Russians. Will a possible rise in the water level in the Volga prevent the work of the cable car? Will it be safe to drive? There are a lot of questions.”

From the outside, the garage looks like a concrete box.

To the left of the garage there are trenches, apparently under the strip foundation of external walls or communications.

The inside of the garage is quite spacious, but it’s still interesting how 62 cabins will fit here (this is exactly the number of them indicated in the technical characteristics of the cable car, although in the Safety System section it is mentioned that “the traction-carrying rope is capable of carrying a load of 56 passenger gondolas.” )? Apparently, not all gondolas will spend the night here.

In some places finishing work is already underway.

“An additional factor in attracting passengers to the cable car could be intensive dacha construction on the left bank of the Volga. In the long term, the cable car will become an important link in the transport connection between Nizhny Novgorod and the satellite city of Globe Town. But when the Podnovye-Bor bridge is built, the cable car as a transport will lose relevance,” says Shchagin. But from the point of view of increasing the tourist attractiveness of Nizhny Novgorod, the idea of ​​a cable car is very successful, experts say. “According to the experience of other countries, operating a cable car for tourism purposes is profitable, but in our country it will become an unusual attraction if an alternative tourism infrastructure is created on Bor,” says Shchagin. - For example, a water park. The Volga cable car is exotic for Russia.”

Tug of war

As Vladimir Ivanov reported, the government of Tatarstan also became interested in this type of transport, asked the government for POMA contacts and is already negotiating the creation of a cable car in Kazan.

Nizhny Novgorod cable car in numbers

Length - 3658 m.
Support height:
the lowest - 7 m,
the highest - 82 m
(due to the difference in terrain).
The total weight of the supports is 560 tons.
The maximum speed of the cabins is 5 m/sec.
Travel time at this speed is 12 minutes.

The crane's intentions do not seem to faze the prop captain. He proudly looks into the distance and spits down.

The bravery of the high-altitude installer scares off the pilots and they bring the car down to the sinful earth.

Let's go darling!

Someone had the foresight to unwind the cable along the shore all night, and to make it more fun, they also decorated it with striped ribbons. Cool!

This is what the blogger himself writes.

Russia's first passenger cable car between cities has finally opened. It connected the cities of Nizhny Novgorod and Bor along the shortest route - over the Volga River.

The construction of the road was announced in the press in 2008, and the opening was promised first in 2010, then in 2011. But passengers started driving only on February 9, 2012.

I must say that the discovery came almost unexpectedly. For example, I only found out about this around noon on February 8, when the information had not yet leaked into the electronic media.
We can say that the opening was attended only by people knowledgeable about the topic or who accidentally learned about the event.

I was at the Nizhny Novgorod station. Everything was very modest.

According to rumors, the Bor station was more crowded and solemn, but when I got there there was practically no one there :)
So, we waited for quite a long time for the cabins to bring someone from Bor. But the booths all came empty.

And then officials began to arrive from the Bor side.

The reporters huddled and tensed.

“We built and built and finally built!” - The vice-governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region and at the same time the chairman of the board of directors of OJSC “Nizhny Novgorod ropeways” Vladimir Ivanov commented on the event approximately in this way.

After a rather long pause, someone finally remembers about the passengers and gives the go-ahead to sell tickets. People ran like a snake between the turnstiles to the ticket office.

There were no promised discounted tickets. All categories of passengers were sold tickets for 50 rubles. You could buy a pair at once - there and back.

At first there was a queue to the booths. I did not notice any disabled people in wheelchairs or with crutches, or passengers with skis, bicycles or baby strollers. According to rumors, some managed to transport some large cargo later by paying for an additional ticket.

The paper ticket, similar to a regular cash receipt, has a barcode applied to it. The ticket must be inserted into the hole of the control device with the barcode facing up, after which the green arrow lights up and the “spinner” barrier is unlocked.

Let's go too.
The booth at the station moves at a speed of 0.3 m/s, which is quite comfortable for an ordinary healthy pedestrian, but you need to be careful with children. I have not yet seen how disabled people or passengers with strollers will be loaded.

Let's go. After a short acceleration and rocking, the cabin calmed down and moved smoothly. Movement speed - 5 m/s.

The glass is tinted, which makes photography a little more difficult. There is no heating in the cabins; the breath of passengers creates patterns on the windows in severe frost. At first we just stare out the windows, then we start sharing our impressions.

The lighting should turn on automatically. There are barred windows.

We pass over the Grebnoy Canal.

The Ascension Pechersky Monastery is clearly visible.

The Volga is already below.

We pass support T7 - ​​one of the two highest. 82 meters!

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The cable car is a means of transportation that has already become familiar to Nizhny Novgorod residents. It was created in 2012 to cross the Volga River to Bor in Nizhny Novgorod. Despite the ordinary nature of the “cable car” for Nizhny Novgorod residents, it has enormous tourist and cultural significance for the city; almost every tourist who comes to Nizhny on an excursion strives to visit it.

The length of the road is 3661 meters, 28 cabins are used to transport passengers.

Schedule of the cable car in Nizhny Novgorod in 2019

The cable car operates in two modes - winter (from October 1 to April 30) and summer (from May 1 to September 30). The schedule for summer 2018 is as follows:

• Monday Thursday: from 06:45 to 22:00 (technical break from 10:45 to 13:00).
• Friday Sunday, public holidays: from 09:00 to 22:00.

All changes in the operating mode of the cable car are usually reported on the official website of the facility.

Story

The need for a cable car between Nizhny and Bor was evident for quite a long time, and at the end of 2007, the Poma company from France created a grandiose project for the current cable car.

2 years after the presentation of the project, preparations for assembly began - foreign builders needed to produce metal supports weighing more than 60 tons and heights from 7 to 82 meters. By the end of 2010, all parts were manufactured and delivered to Nizhny Novgorod, and construction began immediately after that.

The first and trial launch of the cable car in Nizhny took place at the beginning of 2012, and one of its first passengers were local officials and the governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region.

In February of the same year, the cable car opened its doors to passengers and began to operate as usual - transporting passengers from one bank of the Volga to the other.

Operation of the cable car

Bor is one of the largest regional centers in the Nizhny Novgorod region. The direct distance between it and the city itself is about 4 kilometers. Before the construction of the cable car, Nizhny Novgorod residents had the opportunity to cover this distance only by going around it on a bridge - because of this, it increased to 27 kilometers. Now citizens can save time by getting to work using a cable car; in an hour, about 500 passengers move from one bank of the Volga to the other.

However, we should not forget that the cable car in Nizhny Novgorod is also a kind of curiosity for tourists - each of them has the opportunity to admire the beautiful views of the Volga and its banks from a stunningly high altitude. In order to move from Nizhny Novgorod to Bor, passengers sit in comfortable and well-equipped cabins. They are equipped with seating and windows for a full view of the natural beauty. The travel time is just over 12 minutes, the trailer moves at a speed of about 20 kilometers per hour.

From the cabin window you can see the Pechersky Monastery, dense green thickets on the banks of the Volga, and also admire its rapid flow.

Cost of travel on the cable car in Nizhny Novgorod

The cost of one-way travel is 100 rubles. In other words, a tourist who plans to get from Nizhny Novgorod to Bor, and then return back to the starting point, will need to pay 200 rubles.

Also, for regular cable car passengers who need to cross the Volga every day, there are passes for 10, 20, 30 and 48 trips at prices ranging from 820 to 3,550 rubles. For students living and studying in Nizhny Novgorod and the region, there is a preferential program under which these passes can be purchased at almost half the price. Detailed descriptions of current prices can be found on the official website of the facility.

Safety

Passenger boarding and disembarking areas on the Nizhny Novgorod cable car always operate in high security mode - they are fenced off, and the doors operate using an automatic mechanism. As you begin to enter the cabin, it slows down, allowing you to calmly enter it and sit comfortably. The distance between the boarding/disembarking platform and the cabin itself is minimal. Despite the fact that the height at which the cabins are located during the trip is quite impressive, there is no need to be afraid. Inside the trailer there are small stands with information about the rules of conduct inside. It is also planned in the future to equip the cabins with means of communication with the coast guard.

How to get to the cable car in Nizhny Novgorod

The cable car boarding platform is located almost in the city center, just a few bus stops from the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin. You can get to it from almost anywhere in the city using public transport. You will need to get off at the Sennaya stop on the street. Maxim Gorky or Bolshaya Pecherskaya, or at the Sennaya Bus Station. The shortest way will be from Bolshaya Pecherskaya Street, just move up towards the Volga along Sechenov Street. The entrance to the cable car will be immediately after the Nizhny Novgorod Cathedral Mosque, on the right. You can get to the cable car boarding point in Nizhny Novgorod using local taxi services - Uber or Yandex. Taxi.

Cable car in Nizhny Novgorod on video

In mountainous areas, a particularly popular method of transportation is the cable car. Typically, cable cars consist of a cable and cabins in which passengers move along it. The most primitive cable car is a lift at ski resorts with chairs, and the more “advanced” and improved is a funicular with a closed cabin. Cable cars are usually used to transport passengers to different levels, for example, from the foot of a mountain to its peak or vice versa.

The very first cable car was opened back in 1866 in the mountains of Switzerland; it took tourists to an observation deck from where a magnificent view opened up. In the second half of the 20th century, when skiing began to develop especially actively, a real boom began in the construction of cable cars around the world. Today, cable cars are becoming more and more advanced; they are being built even in the most inaccessible places for humans. So, we offer you the TOP 10 most impressive cable cars in the world.

1. Most Exciting: Ropeway in Zhangjiajie Park, China

Surely many of you have watched the legendary James Cameron film “Avatar”. So, the characters in this exciting film lived on mountains floating in the air. What place on Earth do you think inspired the director to come up with such an idea? Undoubtedly, this was Zhangjiajie Park in China. The mountains here are so high and steep that they seem to float in the air, especially since their base is difficult to see in the fog. That is why the cable car in the middle of the rocks of this park is considered the most breathtaking in the world; the view from the cable car cabins is so impressive that some tourists even fainted when they got here for the first time. This is not surprising, because due to a sharp drop in pressure, passengers often have stuffy ears, and the temperature in the cabin drops. It is no coincidence that the local cable car is called the “road to heaven”: on some sections it rises upward at an angle of 70°, crashing straight into the clouds. Those who still dare to overcome the distance of 7455 meters, spending 40 minutes on it, will see the highest miraculous cave in the world, the Heavenly Gate, which arose due to the erosion of rocks on Mount Tianmen, which, according to local residents, has supernatural powers.

2. Fastest: Genting Cable Car, Malaysia

Genting is an entertainment empire located 51 kilometers northeast of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. It is located at the very top of the mountain and can be seen from afar both day and night. During the day, the outlines of buildings and structures are visible through the fog on the top of the mountain, and at night the whole of Genting glows and sparkles with an abundance of neon lights. Here is the only legal casino in the country, several hotels and an extensive amusement park for both children and adults. It is here, at an altitude of about 2 thousand meters above sea level, that the world's fastest cable car, opened in 1997, leads. Most of the funicular route runs over the jungle; if you look closely, you can see strange flowers and plants, and even monkeys scurrying in the thickets. By the way, before the entertainment city grew here, the entire top of the mountain was covered with impenetrable jungle. At the end of the 60s of the last century, the whole country laughed at the initiator of the creation of an amusement park, the Chinese Lim Goh Tong, but already in 1971 the first hotel opened its doors to visitors. And today Genting reaches the size of a small town, completely dedicated to fun leisure activities.

3. Highest mountain: Gulmarg cable car, India

Gulmarg is a primarily ski resort town in India, on the slopes of the Pir Panjal range in the western Himalayas. In fact, the town is located at an altitude of about 27750-0_bgblur_00 meters above sea level, but in reality the elevation difference here ranges from 2750-0_bgblur_000 to 4750-0_bgblur_000 meters. For a long time, the state of Kashmir, in which Gulmarg is located, was considered dangerous for tourism, as it was the subject of disputes between India and Pakistan. However, today this resort is considered very popular not only among local residents, but also among tourists from all over the world. It was here that the cable car was launched in 2750-0_bgblur_750-0_bgblur_0750-0_bgblur_05, which still remains the highest mountain in the world. Its total length is 5 kilometers; about 6,750-0_bgblur_00 people can travel along it per hour. It was the cable car that solved the problem of sky-high prices for skiing at the resort - previously tourists were taken there by helicopter to descend the mountain. The current fare is about $3 USD per trip, and there is also the option of a day ski pass.

4. Worst: Sternensauser cable car, Switzerland

Hoch-Ibrig in Switzerland is a very cozy and at the same time popular ski resort. It is best known for its two excellent downhill toboggan runs. In addition, there are all opportunities for skiing and snowboarding. As for the cable car, here it is not at all the same as we are used to seeing lifts at most ski resorts. Here passengers move under the weight of their own body, fastening their seat belts and wearing helmets. It is quite clear that you will not be able to take photographs of the surroundings, just enjoy the view opening before you and the breathtaking climb. The Sternensauser cable car is a cable stretched between several platforms 75 meters above the ground and is the longest cable car of its type in the world. There is also a regular chairlift here, and from its upper station the route of the cable car begins. While driving, the passenger reaches a speed of 70 to 90 km/h, which creates a feeling of free flight.

5. Glass Cable Car: Sentosa Island, Singapore

The small island of Sentosa, located southwest of Singapore, served as the beginning of this state. Previously, there was a small fishing village here, but today Sentosa Island is a real paradise for tourists and Singaporeans themselves. This is a kind of Asian Disneyland with an amusement park, an aquarium, and three kilometers of snow-white beaches. You can get to the island in any way - by water taxi or public transport, and even on foot. However, being here, it would be a sin not to enjoy the stunning view that opens from the glass cabins of the local cable car located above the strait. It was conceived back in 1968, and launched four years later. At the very beginning, the cable car had 43 cabins, and today their number reaches 81. This is the first cable car in the world to have cabins made entirely of glass. While the cable car is the most scenic way to get to the island, it is also the most expensive. And this is not surprising, because you can get into one of seven VIP cabins, the roof and glass sides of which are decorated with Swarovski crystals. The cost of travel on the first glass and also the first “jewelry” cable car is about 20 US dollars one way.

6. Longest: Tatev cable car, Armenia

Not far from the city of Goris in Armenia there is a unique monastic complex of the 9th-13th centuries called the Tatev Monastery. For a long time this complex was abandoned and gradually collapsed. However, in 2750-0_bgblur_0750-0_bgblur_09 the project of the “Revival of Tatev” program was approved, and already in 2750-0_bgblur_010 a cable car leading to the beautiful monastery in the rocks was opened. It was launched on October 16, and seven days later the cable car called “Wings of Tatev” was included in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s longest passenger cable car. The length of the cable car is almost 6 kilometers, it connects two villages - Halidzor and Tatev. The maximum height above the gorge is 320 m. The cabin, accommodating 25 passengers, moves at a maximum speed of 37 km/h, covering the path from the point of departure to the destination in 11 minutes 25 seconds. The construction of the cable car cost 18 million US dollars, its construction was financed mainly by private foundations. For local residents, travel on the cable car is free, but for tourists it will cost 6 euros. Until the cable car appeared, it was possible to get to Tatev only along a steep serpentine road leading along the cliff at an angle of 45°, which was often washed away in winter. But now tourists and locals can visit Tatev all year round.

7. The longest unsupported span: cable car Miskhor - Ai-Petri, Crimea

Today in Ukraine there are about one and a half dozen cableways, and most of them are located in Crimea. The passenger cable car connecting the Ai-Petri plateau and Miskhor has been under construction since 1967. During construction, various difficulties were overcome, the technical design was changed several times, the cable car cables lay on rocks that could not be destroyed. Because of this, the construction of the cable car dragged on for several decades. The road was opened in 1988, and it continues to operate without interruption. The uniqueness of this cable car lies in the fact that between its middle and upper stations “Sosnovy Bor” and “Ai-Petri” there is the longest unsupported span in Europe, listed in the Guinness Book of Records: there is not a single intermediate tower for two kilometers. During the ascent by cable car - and it lasts about 15 minutes - tourists have time to enjoy the picturesque panorama of the South-Eastern coast of Crimea - from Sudak to Foros. The cable car cabin can accommodate up to 40 people; there are four cabins in total on the road.

8. The world's first urban cable car: Grenoble cable car, France

Grenoble is a city in the southeast of France, famous primarily for its universities, institutes and research centers. However, the city's location - at the foot of three Alpine mountain ranges - has made it a popular ski resort region in France. It was the landscape of the area that made the city authorities think about building a cable car, which would facilitate access to an outstanding local landmark - the Bastille. In 1934, the world's first urban cable car was launched in Grenoble, which quickly became a symbol of the city, like the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Initially, passenger cabins were quite traditional: large “cars” that could accommodate up to 21 passengers. But in 1976, they were replaced by small six-seater spherical plexiglass cabins created by engineer Denny Kressel, which were soon dubbed bubbles and space eggs. The fare is about 7 euros in both directions.

9. Most Historic: Masada Cable Car, Israel

The ancient fortress of Masada on the southwestern coast of the Dead Sea in Israel was built by King Herod back in 25 BC. On the top of an inaccessible cliff, he built a refuge for himself and his family, which included palaces, a synagogue, baths, warehouses for provisions and weapons, and even a water supply system, fed by rainwater. In 73 AD e. Masada was taken by the Romans, and after the fall of the Roman Empire, the fortress was forgotten until 1862, when archaeologists stumbled upon its ruins. Masada has always attracted tourists, but only after 1971, when a cable car was built to it, did it become one of the most visited historical sites in Israel. Before this, it was possible to climb to the top of the rock only along the so-called snake path, which was used in ancient times by rebels, and today by archaeologists. The cable car leading to the top of the plateau is considered the lowest in the world: its lower station is located at an altitude of 257 m above sea level, and its upper station is only 33 m higher. The distance to the top of the cabin - there are only two of them on the cable car - covers in a few minutes, gradually opening up more and more breathtaking views of the surrounding desert and the Dead Sea.

10. Oldest: Prague cable car, Czech Republic

More than 120 years ago, a cable car was opened in the capital of the Czech Republic, Prague, which is considered today the oldest cable car in the world. The road leads up to Petřín Hill, and over the years the carriages sliding up or down the hill have carried more than 56 million passengers. It all started when in 1889 the Czech Tourists Club went to Paris and were amazed by the view of the Eiffel Tower. They built a copy of it on Petrin Hill, and then decided to build a cable car to it, which was built in less than a year. The cable car - not suspended, but a carriage on rails driven by a rope - easily lifted 50 passengers at a time to a height of 1750-0_bgblur_02 m, and the cables were rotated by a water wheel. In 1916, the cable car stopped operating due to the First World War, and only in 1932 it was started again, replacing the water wheel with electric motors and extending it to the current 511 m. The cable car stopped for the second time in 1965, when landslides destroyed part of rail track. Residents of Prague had to wait another 20 years before the famous funicular could once again take them to the top of Petrin Hill. But since then it has been included in the city’s public transport system and stops only for routine inspections.