Head of Chuvashia Mikhail Ignatyev (left) and Merited Matser of Sports of the USSR and Olympic champion in ski races in Sapporo Vladimir Voronkov putting fire into the Olympic cauldron in the Olympiyskiy Stadium in Cheboksary.27.12.2013#2343896
Head of Chuvashia Mikhail Ignatyev at the ceremony of putting fire into the Olympic cauldron in the Olympiyskiy Stadium in Cheboksary.27.12.2013#2343894
Merited Master of Sports and champion of the Olympic Games in ski races in Sapporo Vladimir Voronkov at the ceremony of putting fire into the Olympic cauldron in the Olympiyskiy Stadium in Cheboksary.27.12.2013#2343892
Master of Sports of Russia in athletics Albina Kirillova and Merited Master of Sports of the USSR, cross-country skiing champion of the Olympic Games in Sapporo Vladimir Voronkov during the Olympic torch relay at the Olympiysky Stadium in Cheboksary.27.12.2013#2343891
Yury Popov, chairman of the State Council of the Chuvash Republic, center, by the Protective Mother monument in Cheboksary during the Olympic Torch Relay.27.12.2013#2343791
Head of the Chuvash Republic Mikhail Ignatyev during the Olympic Torch Relay by the Protecting Mother monument in Cheboksary.27.12.2013#2343788
Torch-bearers Yulia Matveyeva and Danis Khusnutdinov during the Olympic Torch Relay on Michmana Pavlova Street in Cheboksary.27.12.2013#2343780
Cheboksary residents watch the Olympic Torch Relay by the Cathedral of St. Tatiana and the Intercession of the Holy Virgin.27.12.2013#2343778
Torch-bearers Anton Lopukhin, left, and Alexander Danilov by the St. Trinity Monastery in Cheboksary during the Olympic Torch Relay.27.12.2013#2343727
Interior Ministry Major Svetlana Zakharova, Merited Master of Sport, participant of the Athens and Beijing Olympics and member of the First Federal Fire Service Brigade in Chuvashia, during the Olympic Torch Relay in Maxim Gorky Prospekt in Cheboksary.27.12.2013#2343718
Runner Olga Bogoslovskaya, 1993 world champion in the 4x100-meter relay and TV commentator, during the Olympic Torch Relay in Cheboksary.27.12.2013#2343619
Torch bearers Alexei Shurdov (left) and Valery Fedotov at the Military Glory Memorial during the Olympic Torch Relay in Cheboksary.27.12.2013#2343612
Torch bearers Alexei Shurdov (left) and Valery Fedotov at the Military Glory Memorial during the Olympic Torch Relay in Cheboksary.27.12.2013#2343611
Russian race walker Olimpiada Ivanova, 2004 Athens Olympics silver winner, and Sergei Melnikov, merited worker of physical fitness and sport of the Chuvash Republic, during the Olympic Torch Relay in Cheboksary.27.12.2013#2343589
Russian race walker Olimpiada Ivanova, 2004 Athens Olympics silver winner, during the Olympic Torch Relay in Cheboksary.27.12.2013#2343587
Russian race walker Yelena Nikolayeva, 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics gold and 1992 Barcelona silver winner, and two times world champion, (right) and torvh bearer Olga Balandina during the Olympic Torch Relay in Cheboksary.27.12.2013#2343581
Russian race walker Yelena Nikolayeva, 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics gold and 1992 Barcelona silver winner, and two times world champion, during the Olympic Torch Relay in Cheboksary.27.12.2013#2343569
