"Electricity supplies were restored in full at 4 p.m. [1 p.m. GMT] January 31 in the Sochi area, which was hit by bad weather January 30," Kubanenergo said in a news release.
Towns and villages on the mountainous Black Sea coast were left without electricity Tuesday after strong winds of 25-30 mps (67 mph), sleet, and ice damaged power lines.
Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry said 52,000 children in the city of 300,000 stayed away from school and preschool, and Sochi's potable water reserves were uncovered for local residents.
"An emergency supply system is being used to provide for electricity consumers in the Sochi Region," Kubanenergo said in the news release. "By the end of the day, energy suppliers will eliminate all the consequences of the accident."
The electricity provider said more than 600 specialists had been working round-the-clock to repair the damaged lines, despite the continuing snowfall in the mountains. Supplies to socially-important facilities were resumed last night, the company said.
Sochi has been short-listed as a host city for the 2014 Olympic Winter Games, along with Austria's Salzburg and South Korea's PyeongChang. The city previously bid for the 1998 and 2002 Winter Olympics, but was rejected largely due to its poor-quality Soviet-era infrastructure. The winner of the bid will be unveiled in July 2007 in Guatemala City.
