Sverdlovsk Minprirody failed to terminate the water use agreement with the owners of the ice rink. The Arbitration Court of the Sverdlovsk Region refused to satisfy the claim.

In a lawsuit filed in May 2018, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Sverdlovsk region asked to terminate the water use agreement, which the agency concluded for 20 years with Lesnaya Skazka LLC.

Recall that the Ministry of Natural Resources decided to terminate the agreement after in January this year on Lake Baltym decided to hold competitions in motorsport "EXTREME ICE 2018" and "ICE DRIFT 2018".

However, the ministry considered the organization of such an event on the lake water a violation of the Water Code of the Russian Federation, according to which cars are prohibited from approaching water bodies closer than 200 meters.

As a result, on the day of the races on January 21 at Baltim, in addition to athletes, minpriprod officers appeared accompanied by officials of the administration of Verkhnyaya Pyshma, the police and the Urals Cossacks. The competition did not stop the competition.