Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will visit the Russian southern resort of Sochi on Monday to discuss the preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympics with President of the International Olympics Committee (IOC) Jacques Rogge.
Rogge is attending a six-day IOC conference, which opened on Sunday and brings together more than 600 representatives of national Olympic and Paralympics movements around the world to discuss various aspects of the Olympic Games.
The conference will also announce the official results of Vancouver 2010 on June 10.
A total of 206 sports and infrastructural facilities are to be built by the time of the 2014 Games in Sochi. Seventy-two facilities are being built in the city now. The cost of building the facilities and infrastructure for the Games is estimated at more than $30 billion.
Putin and Rogge will lay a ceremonial foundation stone at the construction site of the Russian International Olympics University.
The Russian resort city on the Black Sea won the right to host the Olympics at an International Olympic Committee (IOC) session in Guatemala in July 2007 after a close race with South Korea's Pyeongchang and Austria's Salzburg.
Putin, a noted sports fan and participant, was the driving force behind Russia's successful bid.
He took the unprecedented step of delivering a speech in English at the IOC meeting in Guatemala to select the host city, and was credited with swaying delegates to vote for the southern Russian resort.
Russia has never staged Winter Olympics and Moscow's hosting of the 1980 Summer Games was marred by a U.S.-led boycott involving more than 60 countries.
MOSCOW, June 7 (RIA Novosti)
