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SOCHI 2014


VOLGA-DNEPR JOINS THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT….


…. AS SOCHI PREPARES TO MAKE HISTORY


In February, the Russian city of Sochi will make history when it hosts the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, welcoming more than 5,500 Olympic athletes from 80 countries.


The event marks the first time the Russian Federation has hosted the Winter Olympic Games – and for Volga-Dnepr Group, it marks the ultimate realisation of its successful participation in the games, which dates back to 2007. In fact, Volga-Dnepr Airlines was onboard right from the start.


At the start of July 2007, the International Olympic Committee gathered in Guatemala to decide which city would be chosen to host its 22nd Winter Olympics in 2014. In addition to Sochi, the other cities bidding to stage the games were South Korea’s Pyeongchang and Salzburg in Austria.


Ice skating to success


With each city making a prominent final bid to gain the Committee’s support, Sochi’s presentation arena was centred around a large ice skating arena – and


that’s where Volga-Dnepr came in. The 63-ton ice rink was loaded onboard one of the airline’s AN-124-100 ‘Ruslan’ freighters at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport in the early hours of June 27, 2007, and arrived safely in Guatemala in good time to feature in the final bid process.


The euphoria that accompanied Sochi’s awarding of the Games also signalled the start of a multi-billion dollar investment programme in the city in new world class sports venues and the modernisation of telecommunications, power and transport systems.


The Games is being organised in two clusters: a coastal cluster for ice events in Sochi, and a mountain cluster located in the Krasnaya Polyana Mountains. This will make it one of the most compact Games ever, with around 30 minutes travel time from the coastal to mountain cluster.


The Sochi Olympic Park sits alongside the Black Sea coast in the Imeretinskaya Valley, where all the ice venues such as the Bolshoi Ice Palace, the Maly Ice Palace, the Olympic Oval, the Sochi Olympic Skating Centre, the Olympic


Curling Centre, the Central Stadium, the Main Olympic Village and the International Broadcast Centre and Main Press Centre, are all newly-built especially for the Games.


It’s time to get tunnelling


In 2009, Volga-Dnepr was once again called into action to support infrastructure works for the Olympics, moving 94 tonnes of tunnelling equipment to the Russian city to enable construction work on a new ground transportation system. The cargo was transported from Novosibirsk to Sochi Airport onboard one of the airline’s AN-124-100 freighters for OAO Russian Railways and was followed shortly afterwards by a second shipment.


Getting ready for an Olympic Games isn’t just a big deal for the host city and the athletes taking part. For the world’s media, covering the 98 events in 15 winter sports presents an enormous logistics and technical challenge – so nothing is left to chance.


A trial run for the media


In the first quarter of 2011, Volga-Dnepr delivered 93 tons of outside broadcasting


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