Kazan 2013 world cycling tour: three months gone

February 1 the cyclists from Kazan have arrived at New-York city. Staying there for 4 days, they have enjoyed the views of the city from the Empire State Building (It is a 102-story skyscraper located in Midtown Manhattan), visited the New York Public Library, one of the largest libraries in the world, visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art, have walked around the  Times Square, which is one of the major tourist centers in the shopping district of Manhattan. “Big Apple” has a seemingly endless array of interesting and exciting things to see.

February 4 Alen Hayrullin and Pavel Grachev had  a press conference with reporters of Komsomolskaya Pravda, the ITAR-Tass news agency and other media.

"After that, we were invited to the restaurant. Then we went to the TV station channel, broadcasting for many Russian immigrants, where we were given a 25-minute interview, "- said one of the cyclists in the social networks.

Two cyclists from Kazan - Pavel Grachev and Alen Khairullin - continue their world cycling tour dedicated to the 27th Summer Universiade and undertaken to pay tribute to Onisim Pankratov, the first bicycle tourist in the world.

It's already their fourth  month on the road and the travellers have passed the 8,000km mark as they cycled through Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal.