khabarskoe.ru was the site of the ski resort "Center for Active Recreation" ("Ha-House"), operated by the "Khabarskoye" sports club on the high bank of the Oka River near the village of Khabarskoye in Bogorodsky District, next to Nizhny Novgorod[1][3]. The site was listed in the Nizhny Novgorod Internet directory nn.ru under the "/rub/" category[2]; a surviving snapshot of its home page is dated February 2003[1].

What the site offered

The home page was laid out as a feed of short news notes signed "b vs@ieee.org". In a note dated 16 January 2003, the site, as the home page reported, listed what could attract skiers to the resort: "the road to Khabarskoye is in excellent condition," the slopes were "under the constant and close watch of a groomer and two 'Burans' [snowmobiles]," "six T-bar lifts" were operating (a seventh was being readied for launch), and "six instructors are ready to give beginner skiers all the help they need"[1]. Separately, the site advertised evening skiing on lit slopes and a cafe and sauna open "until midnight"[1].

The hotel building and clubhouse by the slopes were called "Ha-House"; a note dated 20 December 2002 described the day of its official opening — featuring the show group "Artes," singer Vladimir Krestovsky, and the art director of the "GraphЪ" agency, along with guests riding snowboards and snowmobiles while the snow cover was still thin[1]. The same page carried the resort's anthem note — as the home page reported, its author Boris Sveshnikov wrote the words to the tune of A. Celentano's "Susanna," and gave the house itself the name "Ha-House": "Love to ride!"[1].

Place in the Nizhny Novgorod internet

In the census, the site is recorded as an entry in the nn.ru directory (category "/rub/")[2]. No votes for it are recorded in the surviving Counter.nn.ru and DNI samples in our data — this means the sample lacks information, not that a zero result was confirmed[2].

How it closed

According to the domain census, the last surviving snapshot of the site in the web archive is dated 9 December 2003, and by the time the card was compiled the domain khabarskoe.ru no longer existed[2]. The further fate of the venue on the bank of the Oka cannot be traced from the available materials. The sports club "Khabarskoye" itself, however, has survived: it still operates near the village of Khabarskoye today, calling itself the largest ski resort in Nizhny Novgorod Region, and runs a site on a different domain — habarskoe.ru[3].

Sources

  1. web.archive.org — Home page, February 2003 (archive)
  2. khabarskoe.ru (archive)
  3. habarskoe.ru — About the Club. Sports club "Khabarskoye"