Pavel Pegov's achieved his personal record of 36.57 in the 500 m event in the Medeo which is located in a mountain valley on the south-eastern outskirts of Almaty, Kazakhstan.
In March that year, on the Medeo rink at Alma-Ata, he broke Yevgeny Kulikov's two-year-old world record on the 500 m. On the 25th of that month, he clocked 36.68, and a day later he sharpened the record to 36.57. It is located in a mountain valley (Medeu Valley, or the valley of Malaya Almatinka River) on the south-eastern outskirts of Almaty, Kazakhstan. 
