One year until Sochi Olympic Games started

Special clocks have been set on February 7 at central squares of Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Rostov-on-Don, Pyatigorsk and Khabarovsk with a countdown showing time left until the start of the Olympic Games in Sochi. The games will start in exactly a year, ITAR-TASS reports.

The clock in Sochi has been operating since 2011.

The Moscow clock is located to the right of the dome of the Okhotny Ryad underground trade center on the Manezhnaya Square. It was built by the Omega Company (Switzerland), a partner of the International Olympic Committee.

The clock in Saint-Petersburg was set on the crossing of the Malaya Konyushennaya Street and Nevsky Avenue, opposite to the Kazan Cathedral.

The clock is 6 meters tall, 2.2 meters wide, 4.4 meters long and weighs 7.8 tons. The clock in Moscow was set at the spot where a chapel had been built in 1883, commemorating the memory of soldiers killed in the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878. It shows time left until the start of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

VGTRK TV will launch a digital clock of time left until the Olympic Games.

Adapted from: Vestnik Kavkaza