In accordance with Part 5, Article 15 of the Federal Law on Organising and Holding the XXII Olympic Games and the XI Paralympic Games in Sochi in 2014, Developing Sochi as a Mountain and Climatic Resort and Making Amendments to the Relevant Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed Executive Order No 447-r of April 2, 2009, which endorsed the list of federally-owned land plots given to citizens and legal entities instead of the land plots taken from them and/or real estate facilities standing on them in order to build Olympic facilities of federal importance.




