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Sochi’s path to Olympic GamesOn July 26, 2005, delegates at Russia’s Olympic Committee unanimously decidedto make Sochi the bid for the XXII Winter Olympic Games in 2014. Theysaid that 6 billion dollars would be necessary to construct the Olympic venues.The official bid was sent to the IOC on July 27.2006. In February, Russia’s Olympic Committee sent the IOC 30 CDs containinginformation about Russia’s future Olympic project. Together with Sochi, thefollowing cities were in the running: Salzburg (Austria), Sofia (Bulgaria), Jaka(Spain), Borjomi (Georgia), Pyeongchang (South Korea) and Almaty (Kazakhstan).By June of that year, Sochi was one of three cities shortlisted by the IOC asa realistic candidate to host the event, together with Salzburg and Pyeongchang.Almost immediately after, the Russian government initiated a change to the functionalzoning of the Sochi National Park. The Ministry of Natural Resources concludedthat it was “not practical to safeguard the protected regime” at the Aibgaridge, Grushevaya Polyana, Turye mountains and the Psekhako ridge. In this way,extremely valuable natural territories became vulnerable. An enormous part of theKrasnopolyansky forestry was excluded from the strictly protected zones of theNational Park, an intact forest area in the middle of the Mzymta river that spreadacross 23 entire and 3 partial forest quarters.12
Sochi-2014: independent environmental reportImage 1. The zoning plan for Sochi National Park before 2006. The zone ofstrict protection, which was discontinued with the onset of Olympic preparation,is marked in yellowAt this point, the biggest environmental threat was to the virgin forests on thePsekhako ridge. According to the initial national park zoning, this ridge was surroundedon three sides by the Caucasian reserve and was almost entirely in thestrictly protected zone of the national park. When zoning was changed in 1997,most of it was taken out of the strictly protected zone, and after 2006 the entireridge, where Gazprom was already deep into construction of their resort, wasremoved from the strictly protected zone.On September 27, 2006, the expert committee of the Ministry of Natural Resourcesapproved the positive environmental impact evaluation assessment of the plan to alterthe Sochi National Park zoning despite strong criticism by various environmentalorganizations, including Environmental Watch on North Caucasus, GreenpeaceRussia, and Maikop’s branch of the Russian Nature Protection Society.In June, the Russian government approved a federal target program “Developmentof Sochi as a mountain climatic resort (2006-2014).” According to the program,about ten sports venues would be built in the Sochi National Park. From13
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