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More than 120 world records were established here by famous sportsmen. During last years the skating rink was improved after conducted modernization.

The mountain valley was named in honor of Medeo, a wanderer who lived in the last century and established own aul in this picturesque. site.

The dam has 3 successive altitude levels. Special water reservoir allows holding about 6 million cubic meters of water. Stairs known to city inhabitants and tourists consisting of 842 steps leads to the dam. Contests on ascension along this unique stairs are regularly carried out.

Several years in succession the ice skating rink turned into the large concert ground where the popular international music festival Voice of Asia (Azia Dauysy) was carried out in which not only Kazakhstan performers but also variety stars from all over the world take part.

Stadium Medeo and ski resort Shymbulak experienced major reconstruction during the preparations for 2011 Asian Winter Games. Most of the engineering and technical systems were replaced. The new refrigeration station for cooling the ice appeared. Visualization systems has changed (electronic scoreboard and a photo finish), lighting and sound. Established a new multimedia display area of 200 m² by U.S. company Billboard Video, which shows the results of any sport games, broadcasts television programs and commercials. Capacity of spectator stands increased to 8500 seats. Reinforced concrete plates are built in the ice surface in which 170 km cooling pipes are distributed. The system of artificial ice freezing does not have analogs worldwide and allows to maintain the ice surface of the skating rink during 8 months per year.

In the course of reconstruction of high-mountain skating rink “Medeu” and ski mountaineering base Shymbulak near Almaty almost all infrastructure was changed implementing world level standards, the manager of project on reconstruction of the complex Slavenko Badura has declared. “During half a year it was done a lot at Medeo and Shymbulak, almost all infrastructure was changed, 20 supports of gondola lift were built at Medeo, we finish upper station at Shymbulak, S. Badura reported at press conference in Almaty. In turn the chief engineer on contract supervision of Doppelmayr company Hans-Peter Zimmerman at the same press conference reported that “active construction of gondola lift” continues for delivery of persons having a rest from “Medeu” till “Shymbulak”. Delivery of gondolas is taking place every 14 seconds, - he noted. Traffic capacity make up to 2 thousand persons per hour. Time on way is up to 15 minutes.”

Bandy World Cup 2012
On the main stage Medeo from January 29 to February 5, 2012 the 32nd Bandy World Cup took place. The right to host the World Cup was given to Kazakhstan on January 28, 2011 at the regular congress of the International Federation of Bandy, held in Kazan. The organizers of the event had planned that initially 15 teams would participate in the championship, but prior to the start of the tournament, Mongolian team refused from tournament due to financial difficulties. Thus, the world championship was attended by 14 teams. In the final game, Russian team lost to Sweden (4:5). Kazakhstan team won the third place by defeating the Finland’s team (10:5).