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a look at preparations for twenty four c. and when x. . it will be the middle of winter but come february twenty fourth scene one russian city will be the hottest destination in the world. tourists from across the globe will be heading to the black sea city of sochi for the start of the winter olympic games. more than ten billion dollars is being spent to prepare and the idea is that the games will leave an economic cultural and environmental legacy that won't just benefits russia as a whole. it's a lofty goal and i wanted to see for myself how things were taking shape sent if you're heading down here in the summer you know you need to travel light.

and makes a very nice change to be able to travel around russia dress like this because here in the subtropical south t. shirt and shorts is pretty much all you need i'm in sochi along a city in europe and the hosts of the twenty fourteen winter olympic games. the city's coastline extends an amazing one hundred forty five kilometers along the black sea and i was going to need some local help to get to know it properly and who better than olympic volunteer. welcome percy. researcher thank you very much by them as part of your with your friends for the race. a man who likes his sunshine pavel moved his several years ago from siberia and to seem some significant changes take place.

so the last time i was here was in two thousand and seven she actually got game. it must be almost a completely different city or so she's a different city from tucson because. you know we have totally infrastructure we have you are. we have almost finished i don't think when you can see the coastal plaster where i mean we used and sometimes move you have a feeling that. they could be or there one night when you would be spending most of my time in the around the olympic site but first i wanted to see more of the city itself and pavel was happy to give me a tool and a history lesson this looks like a wealthy man's playground around here this is such a scene for what. actually this place was one big square it used to be the

twentieth century and the native people were living in the mountains and because. they feared to stay up here here goes on the twenty first century. but the gursky has put here small fish which is. a mosquito yes. no malaria since nine hundred fifty no one was. so she's warm climate has led to a city full of lush greenery and even russia's most famous old bolshevik gets a tropical setting then in the monk the palm trees i wonder if people would ever have such an exotic sexy. but much of the city's other architecture has a classical touch. this is called so with plastic you can see it looks

like bath and and it is widespread all over the idea was that people need to be held in. to rest in palaces so it was like a real palace. it might be known internationally for the olympics but for decades sochi has been russia's favorite seaside resort. tourist still flock to the beaches here every summer and new hotels are popping up all over the place to cope with the expected increase in demand. you're always guaranteed to get a sun sun down here boat speed warms the weather can be very unpredictable. who are they going to break. the record quick getaway.

and this was no ordinary storm fortunately the ole miss black funnel stayed well out to sea but i was soaked and decided it might not be a bad idea to head away from the beaches and up into the mountains. you might think that a city on the sea would have all the fish that it could handle but it seems in sochi there's always room for a bowl and they've been phoning these beautiful rainbow trout here almost all centuries. this is russia's largest trout foam with more than eighty hectares of land two hundred separate palms and some of the racist residents. still the friendly. it's not that. they're limited. to the same hundred places to go wow

alongside the rainbow trout the farm also has pools full of flashing amber trout and the famous blue. see someone would swim into mountain rivers to spawn. what they can hardly be observed because they rush to the surface snatch the food and dive to the bottom. they are just as trout. forty eight teeth in the form of hooks is no bull fighting their own teeth even on their tongues and gills. way should you let them buy two fingers right. stick your hands in there is the sound advice i think there would will heal over only a couple of weeks later the form produces more than eight hundred tons of fish every year and organizes daily guided tours but if you're more of a four legged foreigner there's plenty of that nearby too you won't be able to ski

up in the mountains at this time of year but it's still an amazing place to visit i'm standing right on the edge of the caucuses national reserve and i'm off to meet some of the locals. alexei has been running the sanctuary for more than a decade but the history of the reserve here dates back to the nine hundred twenty s. . the initial purpose was to preserve the bison but later the nature reserve was intrusted with broader functions to preserve other animals as well as the natural environment the nature reserve occupies an area of three hundred forty thousand hectares. these include links road deer and the famous bison as well as eagles and goats with some very impressive head gear but if you like to get up close and personal with

the wildlife there's one animal that's definitely the star of the show a little. oscar here is a male red deer. yeah he's a handsome chap just me years of these horrible flyers and in return for a few carrots the red deer is more than happy to gracie with his presents a bit of a bromance going on. missis. apart from the friendly wildlife it's also impossible not to notice the stunning mountains here in the nature reserve in climbing isn't the only way to enjoy them. as he had it easy so far in such heat so we decided to ramp it up a notch this up in the ski and in knowing about literally explore its depths. the.

canyon is a popular summer sport in sochi and combines hiking jumping and swimming and once we had all safety briefing it was time to get into the water. basically you maneuver yourself through the cracks and gorges here anyway you can take advantage of any handy rocks tree branches along the way. to. lovely stuff and has been leading groups here for more than ten years but i was happy to take a quick break and catch up with him. having a little rest. because it's quite an intensive school and. yes.

it depends on the course of your gun. and what is special about this. i think it's the best guess. because it is a little there are other. places where it jumps we've heard. another legion ski is filled with spectacular scenery. he wasn't wrong about the jumping. exactly but this shows. your. profession. the whole route was a real adventure and around an hour later toyed and

a bit battered at the bottom. late. think just about everything exactly. but. looking forward to the subway. once a joyful it was time to head back into sochi to take advantage of the good weather and do a little highrise sightseeing now i'm a seaside town boy myself so i've been on the old fairground ride and see their share of this saw it entertainment but here is sort see the people promising to combine the two to something rather spectacular. this is the grand opening of the largest ferris wheel in russia and eighty meter high monster then to celebrate they've decided to have a massive multi-ethnic choir sing the national anthem on it well it certainly beats

a ribbon cutting. the choir belted out their anthem with gusto and if you don't mind a bit of a shaky rides the reward at the top is truly spectacular. boil over to go through a quite ridiculously heavy rain still to get clear skies but i think that view is worth the wait. culture is that so much as i know which of course he's right on it comes of years ago and welcome to profit here in a lot of us stop at the apec two thousand and twelve meeting. mission free accreditation free transport charges free. range

mentioned free risk free. to tide free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects and free video don to r.t. dot com you. if you stay in the center of sochi you might never realise the scale of the building that's going on down in emirates in valley there may be peace and quiet here but the olympic coastal cluster has a very different story in the olympic site in miniature and this should give you an idea of just how close together it all is from the stadiums themselves to the infrastructure that surrounds them everything's within walking distance and it means that it's pretty easy for me to take a tour of the facilities this is the busiest construction site in the country with more than fifty thousand people working around the clock and i want to start off in

its biggest stadium. this really is the jewel in the crown of the whole olympic project the site of the opening and closing ceremonies a future world cup football stadium and a place with over all the unusual name right syria so this is the east stadium it's not the fish stadium but fished the last letter ok you name up the mountain right there most beautiful mountain in because the and that's why they call it the beast if you see the arch you have to watch. the hour like moment. and not far from the stadium easy to see here and you come to the site you see i know from the sea to them. alongside the feast there are five other stadiums all within a few minutes walk the bolshoi stone and the schreiber where the hockey will be held the adler arena for speed skating the iceberg for figure skating the ice cube

for curling. you see how the venue's hour to each other we need five minutes to go from one venue to another venue is the most olympic park in the votes during the winter games for sure because the territory is just two hundred fifty six picked hours and weeks and winners in this territory and that was of course one of the real unique selling point it's all really neat you see winter games and near the sea sure this is the side of me and tennis seven made to test seven minutes cross neverland in the mountains yes. i walked into the only spurred arena to see how the interior was taking shape but it seems the workers here have everything under control even if they do have to work from some pretty precarious positions but that doesn't mean they're not looking for new

recruits. well the games might still be a few months away but as you can see this is a project that's going to take some finishing and i think they can probably use all the help they could get. and sorties transpose infrastructure is also getting a major overhaul. if you're going to invite the people of the world to your city you need to make sure that they can all get there and that is where this comes in so choose new three hundred million dollar ports and by twenty fourteen i think it could be processing up to four thousand people every hour. it's taken over two decades to get this airport running after initial building was abandoned back in one thousand nine hundred nine but new owners came in and transformed it and since may two thousand and ten is

such airport has been open for business director sergei says they're on track for the olympics. major of course it's already. normal that everything is there in place but still we need to do something before the. major focus is not on their construction on all the efficiency operations. the airport is a striking symbol of molten salt but just outside the city is an area which has barely changed in the linea. this is one of the natural highlights of the caucuses national reserve this unique subtropical forest which dates back ten to twelve million then the context of that history of you is just a baby it's over a thousand years old and still alive and kicking. and there are plenty more where

that one came from and i headed to me to say to tell me all about them. but the reserve staff aims to preserve oh listen enable visitors to come into contact with the wild in its natural state for years this place has remained intact trees here have neither been felled nor burned it will continue to preserve them. but even though she had never destroyed these trees before says of nature have no such qualms. take a little bit tree over there and probably fell down because of the wind or maybe because of an earthquake we are in an area where small earthquakes often happens thanks so much when. it can be dangerous. for the most today. aside from the natural places of interest there's also a manmade relic here that's left over from the dog cages. have

scaled the fortress. i think that these walls date back to around about the seventh century a.d. and could have been built by the native people who used to inhabit this area was obviously use for defense but who actually built it nobody knows for sure if this park may be the most spectacular piece of tropical sort but it's far from the only part the climate here means that lush greenery flourishes almost everywhere and that includes the city center and i met up with pavel for the rest of my city too so this is where you are park which was. nineteenth century by mr hooper fresh and i reached across who wanted to make wine. and so all this territory was grown with. grapes one with grapes you know for wine and he has found that the grapes are to exit from wine are to say that you know yes and here

scott's all the grapes and he has put here tropical trees and shows so this is him mr hooper and this is where we have this yes that's why. puddles work for the upcoming games has already seen him take part in almost a dozen different major events but it seems he fell into it rather watch out why did you decide to become a woman. actually i. didn't know all the volunteers and i was strolling the place where they reflected and my friends asked me to go there and they didn't know what was going on when i came there and i understand finally that i am a moment you know of my first three rounds. of this event and this was the thing which has changed my life and. now i can't imagine my life without won't you know.

sort of a very positive accident you have. and with such a glowing recommendation i wanted to find out what pavel's program was all about ok james now i'm going to take you to a place where you will become a real fantastic volunteer sent. all the participants here a young intelligent and speak at least one foreign language. when they're working they're supposed to personify the limbic ideal of excellence friendship and respect . the friendship you enjoyed in the other groups as well. the role playing gives the volunteers a chance to bond but also an opportunity to practice the situations they might encounter on the job including some very demanding customers imagine this situation

this is brooke this is a world this is in for desk and this is a sign we have no tickets no where we big no no i'd like to ski jumping please who are very sorry but we have no tickets. and so they're going to. kind of. separate this pick and wish you. well with us for that we did. ask my colleague explained ok then with that kind of self control you'd certainly want pavel on your team ice cold. i think you. know this you know absolutely. so she knows that hospitality is all important and with hundreds of thousands of visitors expected in twenty fourteen the city is working towards becoming accessible for all. alongside the winter olympics sochi is also hosting the twenty

four team power lympics games and that. some significant changes for the city's disable. a few years ago buses like this didn't exist in sochi but thanks to the games and campaigns from people like the leg more and more disabled facilities are being put into place. like. hello. how are you. what we're doing is helping as experts helping the administration to tackle some of those many important issues when we give advice we advise on where something should be built how to avoid more mistakes. that includes being able to take advantage of one of sorties most simple pleasures

a day at the beach and we met up with the legs friend reamer to see what's been done and what's still going on. but it's these tracks they've been around for more than three years. there are many facilities on the beach and they've given disabled people much easier access to cafes to restaurants and other places. and. more and more beaches are expected to be made available in the same way as each season passes. and fortunately it's just as easy to get off the sands as it is to get on them. one of the other great things about these facilities is that when the weather changes on a sixpence it does a little too often here it means that everybody is able to get under cover before the storm breaks so i'm going to go with these guys and see if we can keep dry.

whatever the weather sortie is a city that's built for tourism and the boardwalks a pact with souvenir shops and a whole variety of entertainment. you might spend your summer days sleeping on the beach in sochi but once the sun goes down here the city wakes up. balmy some a night and plenty of high spirited holiday makers i mean this is a city that goes twenty four hours a day and if you're looking to check out the local music scene you won't be short of options. now i can leave russia's biggest seaside resort without checking out the like nightlife been reliably informed that this place might be quiet now that it heats up quite a lot later on and it does give me the choice of how special this will. do with

anything. please. a multitude of ingredients later than my very colorful drink was ready i didn't see exactly what went into it but this isn't the look because. the super bowl should. look at that. point blue with blue cherry. perhaps not terribly manly but it is quite something. the drinks might be very modern for the music here is pure old fashioned rock n roll bands like the cocktails the audience laughs i don't. normally i'll be heading home to my school around now but there's so much more going on in and around sochi but i'm going to stay on to find out more about russia's lympics city and its region then quite frankly there are far worse places to spend your summer.

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