Within the framework of the Finish of Volvo Ocean Race 2008-2009 to be held in St. Petersburg on June 27-28, 2009, the Blagoveshchenski and Dvortsovy bridges will be drawn up to let the yachts pass from 17:00 to 17:30 (local time) to the mooring site at temporary berths (southern shore of Hare Island, near the beach of the Peter-and-Paul Fortress, Volgo-Balt SBA reports.
Volvo Ocean Race is one of the leading projects of sport community in terms of both the scale and the technologies used to cover it by mass media.
The first start of the Volvo Ocean Race (formerly the Whitbread Round the World Race) was in 1973 in Great Britain. From 1997, the race bears its current name - Volvo Ocean Race and is held every four years (from 2005 – every three years). It is one of five largest sport events in the world. The race of 2008-09 is the tenth in its history. The current race started in Alicante, Spain in October.