There are 150 days to go to the Sochi 2014 Olympics. RIA Novosti’s image gallery shows how the city looks, with five months left until its major sports event.
The first thing you see arriving in Sochi is the Olympic Rings.
The state has spent 115 billion rubles on improving public transit in Sochi.
A remote terminal will be built at the Sochi seaport that will receive cruise ships with a capacity of 3,000 passengers. The terminal will be located 1.5 kilometers from the coast. Photo: a rotunda at the Sochi Maritime Terminal.
The Sochi Olympics will become only the second Olympic Games to be held in Russia (Moscow hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1980), and the first Winter Games held in this country.
At least 1.2 million tourists are expected to attend the Games.
A lighthouse at the Sochi Maritime Terminal.
Precisely a year before the Sochi Olympics, many Russian cities launched countdown clocks showing the days, hours, minutes and seconds left until the opening of the Olympic Games.
The Cathedral of Saint Mikhail the Archangel is Sochi’s main Orthodox church.
Sochi’s Riviera Park boasts numerous types of trees and bushes, including rare species such as cedars, larches, magnolia, fan palms, etc. In total, there are over 240 species.
Sochi’s landmark Maritime Terminal is a monument of federal importance.
A residential building under construction in the center of Sochi.
Sochi’s outskirts are one of the few places in Russia where it snows very seldom in winter.
A fountain in Sochi’s Riviera Park.
The Stalin’s Dacha museum is one of Sochi’s major sights and a wonderful place for rest. Its location was chosen deliberately, as it benefits from three air streams: one from the mountains, a second from the sea, and the last from a pine forest.
The Sochi Arboretum is a unique mixture of subtropical flora and fauna. It houses over 2,000 exotic and rare species brought all over the world.
