SochiReporter is the first ever multimedia archive about the preparations of a host city for the Olympics, created 5 years in advance of the Games. At www.sochireporter.ru any user can learn interesting news about the rapidly changing Olympic capital, and is able to post his own stories, blogs and upload photos and video reports about Sochi and life in the city, sharing his or her experience of preparing for the Olympics.

SochiReporter was launched on October 27, 2009 enabling the people of Sochi, the Russian resort city hosting the 2014 Winter Olympics, to use the latest online tools to both discuss and influence the impact of the Games. A website and database allow the community to track and debate how the plans are changing life there over a five-year period. The idea is to help residents better prepare for the Olympics, to inform the media about the city’s issues and to use discussions about the games as a way to improve life in Sochi.

SochiReporter is an interactive portrait of Sochi, and a dynamic and informative resource comprising 10 main sections, a social network, the first ever virtual guidebook of Sochi, system of voting for the best materials and many other features.

The website can be reached via PC and the mobile phone, since the mobile version of SochiReporter launched on November 3, 2009.