An infrastructure for practicing modern, extreme sports appeared in the Primorsky district of St. Petersburg thanks to a civil initiative project. The idea of creating an all-weather playground for young people was supported by the Finance Committee of St. Petersburg and implemented thanks to the co-budgeting program “Your Budget”. A project named #SPOTPODMOSTOM became the first large-scale extreme park in Russia, implemented in the underbridge space of the overpass. When creating this pump track, the method of participatory design was applied with the involvement of specialists from the city administration and future users of the pump track.
SPOTPODMOSTOM is designed for training modern, individual sports such as skateboarding, BMX freestyle, and BMX race, extreme scooter, and roller skating disciplines and it covers the area of 3000 m3. The asphalt pump track is intended for physically active citizens and guests of St. Petersburg from 2 to 70 years old. At the moment, there are about 50,000 active athletes in various disciplines of extreme sports in St. Petersburg.