25 photo Olympic torch relay

Translation Publication American site PolicyMic.

Russia has used the Olympic flame to fully demonstrate their imagination. More than 14 000 people have participated in the relay race and overcame unprecedented 56,000 kilometers, looking down the road to the North Pole, at the bottom of Lake Baikal in space. Yes, in-dash space.

At the moment, overcome by half distance, which used all that is meant by the Russian transport - dog sleds, snowmobiles, skis, spaceships, atomic ice drifts. Well, yes, part of the torch relay has done and on his feet. Here are photos of the 25 most amazing moments of the Olympic torch relay (sources - AP and sochi2014.com) - and each of them could be made only in Russia.

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1.Gornolyzhny resort Sheregesh in Siberia.





2.Baykal.



3.Mihail Chuev makes the Olympic flame to the shore, using a knapsack to issue directives.



4.Olimpiysky fire at the North Pole - on the background of the atomic ice-break "50 years of victory." Russian Russian would not be, if done without anything nuclear.



5.Severny pole. For the first time in the history of the Olympic flame from ancient Greek tradition looked into the territory of Santa Claus.



6.Olenya team at Yakutsk.



7. If you think that will cost one Russian North Pole, once thought so in vain - it's Russian. Rockets in the Olympic symbolism is preparing to launch into space at the Baikonur Cosmodrome (Kazakhstan).



8.A's start.



9.Russkie cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazan are walking unlit Olympic torch in open space. Unfortunately, there is no air, and the torch is not lit - even if you're Russian.



10.Vozvraschaemsya to planet Earth where the torch has crossed the ice of Amur near Blagoveshchensk.



11. If you think that there is not cold - I do not think that anymore.



12.Do not only men are able to enjoy a winter swim - Natalia Usachev makes torch from the Yenisei River in Krasnoyarsk.



13.Bez climbing equipment has not done.



14.101-year-old Alexander Kaptarenko became the oldest torchbearer in history. He plays table tennis and, say, even going to the European Championship among veterans.



15.Elena Saprygin at the sports center in Tomsk.



16.Bez combat fighters too, it was not.



17.U you camels are associated with the desert? Oh well.



18.Nu and horses, yes.



19.Kakaya a mountain. They climb on foot, without a helicopter.



20.Lodka with dragon snout crosses Volga Tver.



21.Esche one boat - has a Viking-style.



22.Fakelonosets stormed the bridge, which symbolizes ... Yes Dunno what it symbolizes. But it's fun.



23.Doplyli on rafts to Gorno-Altaisk. Why no?



24.Evgeny Scherbinin uses another amazing transport near Yekaterinburg.

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