The History of the Olympic Movement photo exhibition is being held at the Sochi Media Center by the Sochi Organising Committee and RIA Novosti. The exhibition includes over 200 of the agency's photos taken during the Olympic and Paralympic Games. It will continue until the end of the Paralympics.

The History of the Olympic Movement photo exhibition is being held at the Sochi Media Center by the Sochi Organising Committee and RIA Novosti. The exhibition includes over 200 of the agency's photos taken during the Olympic and Paralympic Games. It will continue until the end of the Paralympics. Photo: Nikolai Anikin, skier and Honoured Master of Sports during the 15km race at the Olympics in Squaw Valley, USA.

The exhibition features the most interesting and captivating moments of the Winter and Summer Games: 1964 Innbruk, 1968 Grenoble, 1972 Sapporo, 1980 Lake Placid, 2010 Vancouver, 2012 London. Photo: Olympic champion, Soviet biathlete Vladimir Melanin at the shooting point during the Olympic Games in Innsbruck.

Soviet hockey players at the Olympics in Grenoble.

Champions of the 11th Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Soviet figure skaters Irina Rodnina and Alexei Ulanov. Free skating program.

Honoured Master of Sports in speed skating Valery Muratov at the 12th Winter Olympics in Innsbruck.

Soviet luger Vera Zozulya, in the foreground, at the Olympic Games in Lake Placid.

Member of the USSR Luge team, two-person sled, Vitaly Melnik at the start in the Olympic Games in Calgary.

Member of the USSR Alpine Skiing team Sergei Petrik during the 15th Winter Olympics in Calgary.
