Russian President Vladimir Putin inspected sports facilities being built for the Olympics in Sochi. According to the Interfax agency , he demanded that all projects be completed on schedule and stated the need to control construction costs.

“The main thing is that no one steals anything, that there is no unreasonable rise in price,” the president said. At the same time, he admitted that with such a large-scale construction, it is difficult to avoid exceeding the original estimate.

During the trip, Putin visited the Rosa Khutor ski center, designed to host downhill and giant slalom competitions. Vladimir Potanin, the head of Interros and the main investor of the project, told the president about the progress of construction of the center. Potanin promised to prepare the facility for delivery in a timely manner.

Putin also inspected the Russian Coaster ski jump complex, which, according to Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, should be finally commissioned in July 2013. Kozak admitted that its construction took about two years. Kozak also said that during construction the cost of the complex increased from 1.2 billion to 8 billion rubles.

On February 5, Kozak told reporters about the spending of funds allocated for the Olympics in Sochi. He emphasized that the bulk of the funding goes to the development of “the only subtropical resort in the country,” primarily to the creation of infrastructure. According to Kozak, 200 billion rubles are allocated directly for the Games, half of which comes from extra-budgetary sources. About 1.3 trillion rubles are allocated for the development of the region.

Kozak said that significant investment in Sochi should be "a source of pride, and not considered an expense that ruins the country."

In 2006, when the Russian government developed a program for the development of Sochi as a mountain climatic resort, the costs of hosting the Olympics and creating the necessary infrastructure were estimated at 316 billion rubles. As of 2013, expenditures on preparations for the Games exceeded 1.1 trillion rubles.

Putin checked the Olympic construction