The Coastal and Mountain Villages will be home to 45 National Paralympic Committee delegations, totalling around 1,600 people.

More than 2,000 paid staff and volunteers will help run both Villages during the Games, which are due to begin on Friday (March 7).

Both Paralympic Villages include ramps, automatic doors and voice-activated elevators.

The Mayor of the Coastal Village, known as Usadba, is two-times Paralympic gold medal-winning swimmer Olesya Vladykina

It will be home to around 350 athletes and delegation members involved in ice sledge hockey and wheelchair curling events.

Athletes can expect a journey of no more than 10 minutes to get to the Coastal Cluster venues, say organisers.

The Mayor of the Mountain Paralympic Village is Sergey Shilov, six-times skiing Paralympic champion.

The friendly snowflake, one of the mascots of the Paralympic Games, will greet visitors and residents to the Village at its entrance.

It is located close to the ski centre and snowboard park at an altitude of 1,100 metres.

Athletes will be staying in hotel rooms, apartment hotels and chalets.

Organisers say the distance from the Village to the competition venues in the Mountain Cluster is about 10 kilometres.

Meanwhile, athletes competing in biathlon and cross-country skiing can stay in Nordic Ski Housing at the Psekhako Ridge, close to the venue.

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