Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will travel to Sochi to inspect the construction of Olympic facilities together with a high-ranking official from the International Olympic Committee, the cabinet said.
Putin will meet with Jean-Claude Killy, chairman of the IOC Coordination Commission for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, to discuss preparation for the Games.
More than 200 sports and infrastructural facilities are to be built in Sochi by the time of the 2014 Winter Games. The cost of building the facilities and infrastructure is estimated at more than $30 billion.
The southern Russian resort city on the Black Sea won the right to host the Olympics at an IOC session in Guatemala in July 2007 after a close race with South Korea's Pyeongchang and Austria's Salzburg.
Putin, a noted sports fan and participant, was the driving force behind Russia's successful bid.
He took the unprecedented step of delivering a speech in English at the IOC meeting in Guatemala to select the host city, and was credited with swaying delegates to vote for the southern Russian resort.
Russia has never staged Winter Olympics and Moscow's hosting of the 1980 Summer Games was marred by a U.S.-led boycott involving more than 60 countries.
MOSCOW, October 13 (RIA Novosti)
