Sochi, Russia

Leopard, Polar Bear, and Zaya are Sochi 2014 Mascots!

Erik — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 20:31:23 +0000

Ok, so, there will be three! official mascots: 1. The Leopard (28%) 2. The Polar Bear (18%) 3. Zaya the dore hare (16%) 4. The Dolphin (12%) 5. The Bullfinch (10%) 6. The Little Sun (8%) 7. The Matryoshka dolls 8. Brown Bear Percents are the poll results they announced.

Sunlight and Snowflake are mascots for the 2014 Paralympic Games

Erik — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 19:55:15 +0000

Russian Paralympians chose Sunlight and Snowflake as mascots for the 2014 Paralympic Games. The poll for the Olympic mascot is going on right now.

Russia is selecting Olympic mascot

Erik — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:43:42 +0000

Within next two hours Russia will pick the official mascot for the Olympic Games 2014! Concert, with nationwide phone, SMS, and internet poll in the end, I guess, has already been started. If you’re in Russia, you can watch it live at http://itv.1tv.ru/. I’m not sure you’ll be able to see it if you’re outside of [...]

Public 2014 Olympics mascot contest continues – you can participate

Erik — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 23:14:36 +0000

I should’ve blogged about it a couple of months ago, but I was traveling, and changing to a new workplace. There’s an ongoing public mascot contest organized by Sochi 2014 Olympic committee. It started on September 5th, and a month later they announced they are accepting international entries. Their idea, as they announced it, is to get [...]

Sochi-Abkhazia train services resume

Erik — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:11:09 +0000

On June 26th Russia and Abkhazia resumed passenger train services between Adler, Sochi and Gagra, Abkhazia. The train travels twice a day – at 7:05 AM from Adler’s train station, and back at 17:57 (5:57 PM) back the same day. The over two hours trip includes two ten minutes stops for passport control on both [...]

Sochi Virus

Erik — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:04:44 +0000

Web surfing takes me places… Yesterday I found out there’s a computer virus Virus.DOS.Sochi.703, which apparently was dedicated to Sochi’s 2002 Olympics bid — the virus contains the text *Ks&I* Sochi Olympic Games 2002. While trying to get more information on this I stumpled on a real biologic virus called Dobrava-Sochi virus (DOBV-Ap) – separate lineage of [...]

Sochi 1979

Erik — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:39:12 +0000

All Sochi hotels to recevive stars

Erik — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:57:27 +0000

In this week’s government’s decision all tourism infrastructure in Russia – that includes hotels, ski resorts, beaches, and other tourist and recreational venues – will go through mandatory classification. And it will all start with hotels in Sochi. Hotels in Russia are not in a hurry to get classified, as the procedure can be expensive, but [...]

Turkish Airlines will fly to Sochi 3 times a week

Erik — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:16:42 +0000

Turkish Airlines announced launch of flights from Istanbul to Sochi this summer season. Flights to Sochi will be three times a week.

Sochi may host F1 race in 2012

Erik — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 22:25:44 +0000

Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone said he aims to bring the motor-racing series to Russia by 2012 and New York by 2013, in a move to have up to 20 events in the Grand Prix calendar. Formula One will most likely be held in the Russian capital of Moscow or in Sochi, site of the 2014 [...]