Olympic Park in Sochi

The Olympic Park in Sochi has become one of the most important facilities built for the Winter Games. Until recently, in the middle of the Imeretinskaya lowland, the fields stretched, and the specialists were added to the list of places where it was supposed to create an ornithological reserve.

Olympic Park

After the fateful decision of the Russian IOC (since 2007) everything has changed dramatically. The Imereti Valley has become the main building site for the upcoming Games. And here, the so-called "coastal cluster" - the Olympic Park in Adler, which all the tourists and participants of the Games took away with them, began to be erected.

His fellow, located in Krasnaya Polyana, hosted mountain competitions. And the Olympic Park in Adler was the place where the competitions were held "under the roof".

But the most important thing is that here, on the Black Sea coast, the main ceremonies were held: opening and closing.

Infrastructure

The Olympic Park has become a whole complex of buildings. It includes in its infrastructure not only sports palaces and stadiums, but also those facilities where athletes, members of the IOC and spectators lived. It also includes a state-of-the-art railway station.

The most magnificent sports facility, which is located in the Olympic Park - is the stadium "Fisht", seating forty-seven thousand spectators. It was he who was seen by viewers during the opening and closing ceremonies of the Games of 2014.

The second largest sports facility is the Great Ice Palace, designed for twelve thousand spectators. Hockey teams competed here. Outwardly, the ice palace is very similar to a huge frozen drop, so the people called it.

The Olympic Park in Sochi is a closed skating center "Adler-Arena" for eight thousand visitors, the ice stadium "Iceberg", the small arena "Shayba" for seven thousand spectators, as well as the "Ice Cube" for curling and numerous training areas for figure skating And hockey.

In the "coastal cluster" are also the main Olympic village, a media center and a hotel, where IOC members lived. Around the park is laid the track for Formula 1.

The Olympic Park in Adler is not only a sports facility. Around the dense circle of stadiums stands a temple complex. In the shelter of St. John the Baptist there is also a museum and a cultural center. Now the Orthodox can also pray in the Cathedral of the Savior's Image of Christ the Savior.

Olympic Park during the Winter Games in Sochi

The organizers did everything to ensure that the main complex was filled with a festive atmosphere at that time: musical shows, combined with the most beautiful awards ceremonies, gala concerts in which world-famous stars and a daily saturated program with animation and entertainment participated.

Only in open areas, which are so rich in the Olympic Park, daily worked for about three hundred street artists. Especially for the Sochi Games, they have prepared unique programs involving clownery and pantomime theaters, acrobats and circus performers, as well as the best breakdancing groups and capoeira dancers.

The audience could join the artists, for example, dance with flash mobs or interactive music bands.

Every day in the park there were costumed promenades. Performances of musical collectives from all over the country were designed to represent the national flavor and demonstrate the cultural diversity of the vast Russia.

Fans were offered aquagrim with the national flags of all participating countries. The most successful places, which were excellent for photographing, were marked with a special icon in the park area with a hash of SOCHI 2014.

After the Winter Games

With the beginning of the spring of 2014, all the objects of the "seaside cluster" began to work in the usual rhythm for the townspeople and holiday-makers. The Olympic Park is accessible to anyone who wishes. In summer, his alleys are used for cycling in Sochi.

Around it is a fairly wide ring road. Here there are rentals of electric cars and bicycles. The point of rent giroskutery also works.

The Imeretinskaya embankment adjoins the border of the park, the length of which is six kilometers. It stretches from the port on the Mzymta River to the border with Abkhazia, passing along the Psou River.

Opening Hours

The Olympic Park, whose photo was taken with all the participants of the Olympics, is open from ten in the morning to eleven in the evening. You can walk around the embankment around the clock. The city administration for tourists organizes excursions in the park. They are held under the auspices of the "Olympic legacy". There are regular tours, and evenings, when the stunning backlight is turned on. On Mondays this huge complex is closed for visiting.

How to get to the Olympic Park?

Those who are comfortable to get to the park from the Sochi railway station, it is better to use a modern train with the romantic name "Swallow". She departs regularly from stations "Hosta", "Matsesta", "Adler".

The station "Olympic Park" has become the main transport gate of the coastal cluster. Its project was developed by St. Petersburg architects. You can walk to any object of the coastal park in just five minutes.

On the bus, those who wish can come here from Sochi and Khosta, Matsesta and Kudepsta, as well as Adler, Esto-Sadok or Krasnaya Polyana. To the park from the station or airport you can get there by minibus.

Russian Disneyland

Another attraction, which attracts tourists and townspeople, was the thematic Sochi Park. Unfortunately, by the beginning of the Olympic Games the most extreme rides were not put into operation, however it was very popular and became a favorite place even for contestants.

The full opening of the park in the park took place on July 1, after full testing of all the attractions of this Russian Disneyland.

New life of the park

Immediately after the end of the Olympics and the Paralympic Games, the park was closed for walks. This was explained by the fact that the transfer of sports facilities to the balance of the city administration began. On the 8th of April, 2014 the complex was opened. The entrance to it is free.

However, one who wishes to visit the Olympic Park should clearly realize that today this place differs somewhat from that lively patch that the whole world observed during the Games and the athletes and spectators told about the special atmosphere with great enthusiasm.

The completely unchanged appearance of all sports facilities, especially the bowls for the Olympic flame, which is still solemnly elevated to the sky, today's visitors makes it possible to represent the atmosphere that was inherent in the main complex of the Games called the Olympic Park. Its site tells in detail both about today's innovations, and about the holiday that reigned here in winter, when the most famous athletes and celebrities strolled through its territory.