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Where visited torchbearers
Did you know that more than 14,000 people have participated in the Olympic torch relay and overcome nearly 56,000 kilometers, sending the torch into space at the bottom of Lake Baikal and the North Pole. Before you 25 of the most amazing places we visited torchbearers. 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 been done and legs
Baykal.
Ski resort Sheregesh in Siberia.
Michael Chuyev makes the Olympic flame to the shore, using a knapsack to issue directives.
Olympic flame 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.
North Pole. For the first time in the history of the Olympic flame from ancient Greek tradition looked into the territory of Santa Claus.
Reindeer near Yakutsk.
If you thought that Russian would cost one 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).
And here's the start.
Russian 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.
Go back to planet Earth where the torch has crossed the ice of Amur near Blagoveshchensk.
If you think that there is not cold - I do not think that anymore.
Not only men are able to enjoy a winter swim - Natalia Usachev makes torch from the Yenisei River in Krasnoyarsk.
Without climbing equipment has not done.
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.
Elena Saprygin at the sports center in Tomsk.
Without combat fighters too, it was not.
You are associated with the desert camels? Well, well.
Well, the horse, yes.
Some mountain. They climb on foot, without a helicopter.
Boat with dragon snout crosses Volga Tver.
Another boat - has a Viking-style.
Torchbearer stormed the bridge, which symbolizes ... Yes Dunno what it symbolizes. But it's fun.
We sailed on rafts to Gorno-Altaisk. Why not?
Eugene Scherbinin uses another amazing transport near Yekaterinburg.
Well, here is the last photo. See you in Sochi!
Source: www.sports.ru