Thursday, June 12, 2014

RUSSIAN POSTCARD : ADLER ARENA

THE PICTURE : The Adler Arena Trade And Exhibition Center is an 8,000-seat speed skating oval in the Olympic Park, Sochi, Russia. It opened in 2012 and looks like an iceberg or ice fault. The center will host the speed skating events at the 2014 Winter Olympics. After the Olympics, it will be turned into an exhibition center. It cost $32.8 million to build the venue, including the temporary works for the Olympics. Before the Olympics it hosted the 2013 Russian Speed Skating Championships in December 2012 and the 2013 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships from 21 to 24 March 2013.
THE STAMP : It has 3 kind of stamp, that is the mascot of Sochi 2014 (issued on 2013), Astrakhan Kremlin stamp (issued on 1st November 2009), and Elk stamp (issued on 29th August 2008).

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