We introduce the participants' list of "St.-Petersburg - Northern Forest 2009".

Crew №1

Boris Gadasin
International master of sport. Participant of the first Russian rally-raid Championship (1999). Double Champion of Russian rally-raid. Winner of the FIA International Cup for Cross-Country Bajas 2007, silver medal winner in 2008. This season Boris is striving for victory in the FIA International Cup again. Winner of "Northern Forest 2007". Multi-champion in Russian trophy-raids. Chairman of RAF trophy-raid commission.
On present Baja Boris will drive a renewed car. The engine for it was prepared in cooperation with the American and Hungarian XSport team. It's a works-built Nissan of 2006. Presents the new G-Force Motorsport team.

Vladimir Demyanenko
International master of sport. Participant of the first Russian rally-raid Championship (1999). Bronze medal winner of the World Cup 2000. Vice-champion of Russian rally-raid in 2001 and 2008. Multi-winner of the World Cup rounds. Participated in the Dakar rally-marathon 3 times. Candidate master in helicopter sport.

Crew №2

Miroslav Zapletal (Czech republic)
Participated in rally-raids for 26 years - but only does the second year he drive a car, before it was a motorcycle. Champion of Czech Republic in 2008, bronze medal winner of the FIA International Baja Cup (2007), multi-winner of its rounds. Reached 7th place overall in Dakar-2009.
Participated for the first on snow surface on the last year Baja "Northern Forest" - and finished 4th place overall from the first attempt. This year he'll drive a petrol L200 instead of a diesel Pajero.

Vladimir Nemayer (Czech republic)
Has participated in rally-raids since 2005.

Crew №3
Ruslan Misikov
International master of sport, reigning Russian rally-raids champion. Has participated in rally-raids since 2000. Double Russian champion (2002 and 2008), winner of the Russian Cup 2006. Multi-participant and prize winner of the World Cup rounds. Participated in every "Northern Forest: except the first one in 2003. Winner of "Northern Forest" in 2004, 2007 and 2008 - silver medal winner. Creator and chief of the NART TIME team.

Sergey Talantsev
International master of sport, reigning Russian rally-raids champion. Started to participate in rally-raids for the factory team of AutoVaz in 1984. The USSR bronze medal winner in rally in 1988, participated in WRC events. Three-times-winner in "1000 lakes" rally (Finland) in A6 class. A team member of AutoVaz in 2 super marathons Paris-Moscow-Ulan-Bator-Beijing in 1992 and 1995. Silver medal winner of this marathon in 1995. Participant of Paris-Dakar-Paris in 1994. Winner of the Russian Cup (2006) and the Russian Champion (2008). Participated 3 times in "Northern Forest", 2008 -second place in the crew of Ruslan Misikov. At the end of 1970s the USSR master of sport in biathlon.

Crew №4
Alexey Berkut
International master of sport. Has been in rally-raids for 8 years now. Double-champion of Russia (2004, 2006), vice-champion in 2008, bronze medal winner in 2005 and in 2007. Participated 4 times in "Dakar" including this year. Participated in every "Northern Forest" Baja. Was the winner twice in this rally, last year got bronze medal. Their car hasn't been returned from "Dakar" yet, and they'll have to rent, it's their first experience in driving such car.

Crew №5
Konstantin Zhiltsov
International master of sport. Participation in rally-raids for more than 10 years. Multi-champion of Russia and holder of Russian Cup, six-time Champion of Russia in team standings. Participated in every "Northern Forest" Baja and never left without medals. Last year's winner in T2 group. Participated 3 times in "Dakar". Master of sport in track-and-field athletics.

Konstantin Mescheryakov

Crew №6
Giovanni Manfrinato (Italy)
Participates in raids for the second year. Participated earlier in rallying in the World Championship among production-based cars (P-WRC). Has an experience in participation on snow surface but only in rallying.

Carlo Pisano (Italy)
Came to raids from rallying as well as the driver.

The crew won the "Sardegna" rally in 2007 in GroupN category.

Crew №7
Jaroslav Solovjev
More than 10 years in rally-raids. Multiple winner of medals on Russian Championship's rounds, finished twice in "Dakar". Winner of theRussian Cup. Participated in "Northern Forest" four times. This year Jaroslav drives a factory-built Nissan Frontier Crew Cup in first rounds of the Russian Championship. He drove buggy for two years but this year he decided to try a four-wheel-drive car.
Candidate master in mountain skiing. Presents the G-Force Motorsport team.

Vladimir Korolev
The USSR master in motor sport. Participation in rally-raids for 8 years. Holder of the Russian Cup, bronze medal winner of the Russian Championship, winner and multiple prize winner of the World cup's rounds. Participated twice in "Northern Forest" but only once finished. Vladimir is the chairman of the RAF rally-raid Committee.

Crew №8
Alexander Mironenko
Master of sport. Winner of the International Cup for Bajas. Two times silver medal winner of the Russian Championship, participant of Dakar-2009. Master of sport in mountain skiing. Drives a new car. Last "Northern Forest" he was a co-driver.

Andrew Neshin

Crew №9
Sergey Savenko
Valery Shuhnov

Crew №10
Mikhail Antsiferov
Master of sport. Has participated in rally-raids since 2006. Prize winner of the Russian trophy-raid Championship, double Russian trophy-raid champion in team standings. First participation in "Northern Forest".

Gennady Broslavsky
Master of sport. First participation in raids. Holder of bronze medal of Formula Rus' 2002, Russian Rally Champion 2004. In ordinary life he has "a boring occupation" - motor-sport instructor.