VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- The Olympic flame reached Russia's Pacific Coast Saturday and will begin the long trek west to the site of the 2014 Winter Games, officials said.
Russia's organizing committee flew the torch to Vladivostok from western Russia aboard an Aeroflot airliner. It took 19 days and a dozen separate flights covering 24,455 kilometers (15,196 miles) to reach the Pacific port, Russia's RIA Novosti news agency said.