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A Belarusian crew will participate in “Expedition Trophy-2008”, which will start on February 23 in Murmansk on the Kola Peninsula and will finish on March, 8 in Vladivostok at the Pacific coast. Spokesman for the Committee of the Off-Road Races of the Belarusian Automobile Federation Danila Dolmatov told BelTA that it is the greatest winter transcontinental motor competition-adventure on the planet. The route of “Expedition Tropohy-2008”, which is 16 thousand kilometers long, will cross 8 most beautiful regions - Kola peninsula, Central and Northern Russia, Volga region, Urals, Siberia, the Baikal region and the Far East. This year the Belarusian crew passed the qualifying contests. The Russian-Belarusian team consists of 6 people divided in 2 crews: one of them consists of Muscovites, the other is represented by Belarusians: Arthur Kurbakov, Anatoly Baidachny and Olga Danileiko. According to the rules of the race, there should be at least one girl in the team, but the Russians could not find any girl that could be good enough for the team. Olga Danileiko leads the only Belarusian crew in the jeep trial races. “The Belarusians hit the road driving a 1998 Mitsubishi Pajero with a diesel engine”, Danila Dolmatov noted.