pathian Mountains and Karelia are many of the country's two thousand sanatoriums and one thousand rest homes. They stay open the year round for skiers, skaters and other winter sports devotees—those who hopefully track wild game in the woods or spend hours cajoling fish through holes chopped in the ice.

These resorts and sanatoriums—they are managed by the trade unions—accommodate some six million people annually. There are, besides, many rest homes and camps maintained by factories, institutions and colleges where hundreds of thousands of workers and students spend their winter vacations.

And for those who take their vacations in summer? No need to deprive themselves of winter fun, at least not on week-ends. Not if they join the thousands who go skiing at camps a short ride from the city by train or car, or skate at one of the innumerable risks in parks and stadiums.

Sun, Snow and a Mountain—A Skier's Idea of Nature Properly Assembled