the winner of the championship, pavel buchkov, was awarded the title of russia's first skier.ce, recruited to build a railway in moscow, became a victim of death. here for skiing. bychkov overcame distance in 2 hours and almost 27 minutes. speed skiing competitions began in russia at the end of the 19th century. and almost immediately the fun turned. and its charter was approved by the moscow governor-general. it was the moscow skiers club that developed the first rules for the competition and their calendar, in fact, becoming the first domestic ski federation. on february 7, 1992 , the treaty of mastricht was signed, which marked the beginning of the emergence of the european union. the treaty was initially signed by the participating countries of three european communities, the european economic community, the european atomic energy community and the european coal and steel community. there were 12 countries: belgium, the netherlands, luxembourg, denmark, spain, portugal, italy, greece, britain, ireland, france and germany. a european monetary union was also formed, the pu