Under the programme to build Olympic facilities and develop the city of Sochi as a mountain holiday resort, 81 facilities are currently under construction involving 20,059 workers and 2,779 machines. Twelve facilities have been completed.
Six sports facilities are being built in the Imereti Valley:
1. The foundation of the Central Stadium with a capacity of 40,000 seats is being built and is to be completed by 2013.
2. Foundation work has started on the Minor Ice Arena for ice hockey with 7,000 seats. It is designed for quick assembly and disassembly.
3. About 5000 tons of metal framing has been installed at the Ice Sports Palace for figure skating and short track for 12,000 spectators. The builders are finishing the reinforced concrete ceilings at a height of 9.3 m. The metal frame of the building has reached the 20.7 m mark, when completed the Ice Palace will be 32 m tall. Work is scheduled to be completed this year. It is designed for quick assembly and disassembly.
4. A monolithic frame of a building is nearing completion, and the assembly of the metal ceiling frames at the Grand Ice Arena for ice hockey with capacity for 12,000 will start in July. Construction is scheduled to be completed in 2012.
5. The foundation for the Curling Ice Arena, capacity of 3,000, has been completed. It will be a dismountable structure.
6. Work is underway to reinforce the ground under the foundation for an 8,000-seat indoor skating centre.
Most of the above facilities will be finished in 2012.
All the Olympic facilities in the Krasnaya Polyana area are in the construction process. They include:
1. A combined complex for cross-country skiing and biathlon with a seating capacity of 16,000 for each sport.
2. A cross-country skiing complex for 16,000 spectators.
3. Downhill skiing centre for 18,000 spectators.
4. Sled and bob-sled track for 11,000 spectators.
5. A 15,000-seat snowboard park, a 14,000-seat freestyle centre with engineering protection to the west of the Roza Khutor Plateau.
6. A set of ski-jumps K-125, K-95 for 15,000 spectators.
7. A complex of training ski jumps K-72, K-45 and K-25.
The skiing centre comprises 36 tracks, 24 of which will be used for Olympic women's and men's downhill racing events, slalom and giant slalom. Preparation is underway for the Alpine skiing European Cup event to be held on the slopes of the Roza Khutor complex in February 2011. The event will be the first test for that Olympic facility.
All in all, the programme of building Olympic facilities and the development of Sochi as a mountain holiday resort includes the construction of:
- 13 sports facilities with a total seating capacity of 191,000;
- more than 260 km of motorway (of which 62 km are in the mountains);
- over 105 km of railway track;
- 22 motor and 11 railway tunnels, six technological tunnels with a total length of over 50 km;
- more than 47 km of bridges and flyovers;
- 150 km of gas pipeline in the Adler District and about 60 km at Krasnaya Polyana;
- an 82 megawatt hydroelectric power station and five thermal power plants with a total capacity of more than 1210 megawatts;
- 18 substations with a capacity of over 1660 MWA;
- 24 motorway interchanges;
- 174 km of the Dzhubga-Sochi gas pipeline (of which 151 km will be laid on the sea floor);
- over 550 km of high-voltage power transmission lines;
- over 580 km of engineering networks;
- 700 km of fiber-optic lines.