Today the Olympic Fire has arrived at the Pulkovo airport in St.Petersburg from Istanbul by extra flight. The jet landed at 03:30 Moscow time.
      
      The Russian part of the Olympic Fire will be started at 10:30 April,5 on the Victory Square and will be finished at 15:00 on the Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square, where the fire will be lighted from the touch in the symbolic Olympic Cup. The relay race is made up of 80 stages; each of which is 250 meters long. The total length of the relay race is more than 20 km.
      
      The following famous Russian sportsmen are among the torchbearers: Galina Zybina, Lubov Yegorova, Svetlana Zhurova, Adrey Arshavin, Yevgeniy Plushchenko and others. The torch will be also carried by the first woman- cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the People’s Artist of Russia Alisa Freindlich.
      
      The place where the Olympic fire will be kept before the relay race is kept in secret. But some sources report that it be in kept in Park Inn.
      
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