Only 34 days remain until the start of the 2014 Winter Olympics in
Sochi, Russia. The torch relay, which began in Greece last September, is
billed as the longest in Winter Olympics history - covering 65,000 km
(40,390 mi) as it passes through 2,900 towns and villages across all 83
regions of Russia. So far, the torch has been carried on foot and aboard
sleds, ships, wheelchairs, camels, a Soyuz spacecraft, a
nuclear-powered icebreaker, and a water jet-pack. The relay will come to
an end on February 7, 2014, at the opening ceremony in Sochi. [37 photos]
Torch bearers hold Olympic torches during the torch relay in the Far
Eastern University on the Russky Island near the port city of
Vladivostok, Russia, on November 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander Khitrov)
Greek actress Ino Menegaki, playing the role of High Priestess, passes
the Olympic flame to Greek skier Yannis Antoniou, the first torchbearer
of the torch relay, at the site of ancient Olympia in Greece, on
September 28, 2013. (Reuters/Yannis Behrakis) #
Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a torch in Moscow to start the
relay across Russia, on October 6, 2013, as the Olympic Flame for the
XXII Winter Olympic Games Sochi 2014 arrived in Russia. (Alexander Nemenov/AFP/Getty Images) #
Torch bearer Mikahil Chuyev, using a water jet pack, carries an Olympic
torch from a boat to the shore during the Olympic torch relay on Lake
Baikal in Siberia, on November 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Olympictorch2014.com) #
A torch bearer rides in a sled pulled by reindeer during the torch
relay near the Siberian city of Yakutsk, on November 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Olympictorch2014.com) #
Torch bearer Natalia Usacheva, ice cold water swimmer, swims along the
Tatyshev Channel of the Yenisei River in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, on
November 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Olympictorch2014.com) #
101-year old Alexander Kaptarenko carries the Olympic torch through
Novosibirsk, on December 7, 2013. Kaptarenko, who still plays table
tennis, is the oldest torch bearer in the relay and he plans to
participate in the European table tennis veterans championships. (AP Photo/Ilnar Salakhiev) #
A woman wearing a folk costume warms her ears as she takes part in a
welcome ceremony of the Olympic torch relay in Novosibirsk, on December
6, 2013. (AP Photo/Ilnar Salakhiev) #
Russia's Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft carrying an international crew
including Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata, Russian cosmonaut Mikhail
Tyurin and US astronaut Rick Mastracchio and an unlit Olympic torch for
the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi aboard blasts off from the Russian leased
Kazakh Baikonur Cosmodrome, on November 7, 2013. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images) #
In the International Space Station's Rassvet Mini-Research Module 1,
Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin holds the Olympic torch, after
arriving aboard a Soyuz spacecraft. (NASA) #
Russian astronaut Oleg Kotov holds the Olympic torch during a
spacewalk, as Russian astronaut Sergei Ryazansky prepares the camera
outside the International Space Station in this still image taken from
video courtesy of NASA TV, on November 9, 2013. (Reuters/NASA TV) #
International Space Station crew member Russian cosmonaut Fyodor
Yurchikhin holds the torch of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games after
landing near the town of Zhezkazgan in central Kazakhstan, on November
11, 2013. (Reuters/Shamil Zhumatov) #
A torch bearer holds the torch aboard a boat crossing Avacha Bay, near
the Russian city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, on November 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Olympictorch2014.com) #
A torch bearer runs in a national open-air museum with more than 80
historical wooden structures in Kizhi island, near the center of Lake
Onega in the Republic of Karelia, on October 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Olympictorch2014.com) #
Alexander Chudnovskiy, holding the Olympic torch, is pushed in a sled
during a welcome ceremony in the Taltsy open air museum on the Angara
River, 47 km (29 miles) south of Irkutsk in Siberia, on November 23,
2013. About thousand performers dressed in folk costumes participated in
the Olympic flame welcome ceremony. (AP Photo/Olympictorch2014.com) #
A combination of still images taken from video shows (top L-R)
torchbearer and former swimming champion Shavarsh Karapetyan receiving
the Olympic torch before the flame is blown out; and (bottom L-R) an
unidentified man along the route relighting the torch with a lighter, as
Karapetyan ran through the Kremlin in Moscow, on October 6, 2013. (Reuters/Reuters TV) #
Oleg Kalinin (left) and Vyacheslav Kalyuzhny hold Olympic torches at
the Kedrovsky coal mine in Kemerovo region, west Siberia, on November
29, 2013. (AP Photo/Olympictorch2014.com) #
Olga Nasonova (center) carries the torch as she snowboards in the
Sheregesh winter sports resort in Tashtagol, Kemerovo region, western
Siberia, on November 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Ilnar Salakhiev) #
Mikahil Chuyev uses a jet pack to deliver the Olympic torch from a boat
to the shore during the Olympic torch relay on Lake Baikal in Siberia,
on November 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Olympictorch2014.com) #
Lifeguard Nikolai Rybachenko plunges with an Olympic torch with a
water-resistant flare atop it into Lake Baikal, during the Olympic torch
relay in Siberia, on November 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Olympictorch2014.com) #
Torch bearers, TV anchorwoman Yekaterina Andreyeva (right) and
Alexander Vronsky, hold Olympic torches underwater, in Lake Baikal, on
November 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Olympictorch2014.com) #
Galina Zhigunova (right), an employee of Baltika Breweries company, and
jazz saxophonist Igor Butman take part in the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic
torch relay in front of the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood in
central St. Petersburg, on October 27, 2013. (Reuters/Alexander Demianchuk) #
A torch bearer gallops, accompanied by riders in folk costumes, during a
torch relay near Ulan Ude, eastern Siberia, on November 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Olympictorch2014.com) #
Residents watch the Olympic torch relay in Ufa, the regional capital of
the Volga River region of Bashkortostan, on December 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Olympictorch2014.com) #
A group of torch bearers hold the Olympic torch at the North Pole,
Arctic Ocean, on October 19, 2013. The nuclear-powered icebreaker 50 Let
Pobedy (50 Years of the Victory) is in the background. (AP Photo/Sergei Dolya) #
Russian alpinist Vladimir Gunko stands at the top of the rock named
"The First Stolb" (the First Pillar) at the Stolby national nature
reserve during the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic torch relay in the Siberian
Taiga area outside Krasnoyarsk, on November 26, 2013. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin) #
Lorisa Oorzhak (center) holds an Olympic torch as people dressed in
folk costumes perform during a welcome ceremony in Aldyn Bulak, in Tuva,
southern Siberia, on November 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Olympictorch2014.com) #
Radomir Proshchenko carries the Olympic torch suspended from a cable
during the Olympic torch relay in Tyumen, western Siberia, on December
11, 2013. (AP Photo/Olympictorch2014.com) #
Valentina Volokitina jumps with the Olympic torch during the torch relay in Kazan, Russia, on December 31, 2013. (AP Photo/Olympictorch2014.com) #
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2/2/2014 Mount Elbrus Olympic Flame has been lit at the Mt. Elbrus
As part of the Sochi
2014 Olympic Torch Relay, the Olympic Flame has been lit at the peak of
the highest point in Europe - Mt. Elbrus, which is located in the
Kabardino-Balkar Republic.
Russian tennis player and
Olympic medalist Maria Sharapova carries the Olympic torch into Fisht
Olympic Stadium, on February 7, 2014. (Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images) #
Russian gymnast Alina Kabaeva, was one of the final torchbearers in the ceremony
Irina Rodnina, far
left, receives the torch from Alina Kabaeva.
Former hockey player Vladislav
Tretiak (right) and figure skater Irina Rodnina light the Olympic
cauldron together on February 7, 2014. (Reuters/Pool) #
Fire races up the Olympic Cauldron, on February 7, 2014. (Reuters/Shamil Zhumatov) #
Fireworks explode over Fisht Olympic Stadium, on February 7, 2014. (Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images) #Fireworks explode after the
lighting of the Olympic Cauldron, during the opening ceremony of the
2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, February 7, 2014. (Reuters/Shamil Zhumatov) #
2/2/2014 Mount Elbrus 
Fireworks explode after the
lighting of the Olympic Cauldron, during the opening ceremony of the
2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, February 7, 2014. 
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