The picture was taken in the Biathlon Centre and has caused diverse reactions from social media users, some of whom linked it to the recent gay rights debate
Steve Rosenberg/BBC
No, you're not seeing double - this picture of two toilets in the same cubicle at the Sochi Olympics is real.
The photo, taken in a men's toilets at the Biathlon centre, has been causing a Twitter storm since it was taken.
Social media users flocked to the site to question the sight and joke whether it was a reference to the current storm taking place over gay rights in the country.
BBC Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg snapped the toilets yesterday, which have been re-tweeted hundreds of times and featured in news bulletins worldwide.
Posting the picture on the site, he said: "Just to make clear, this is not photo-shopped. You can see my reflection in the mirror."
Opposition leader Alexei Navalny was one of the opposition politicians who used the snap to question how the alleged £30bn game's budget had been spent.
His translated tweet said: "This is a men's toilet in a Sochi Olympics media centre for 1.5 billion rubles [$45 million]."
Meanwhile Russian political activist and chess hero Gary Kasparov joked that the toilets will "create a sense of community!"
Mr Rosenberg followed up his photo by re-tweeting an image of five communal toilets at Kazan University, taken by BBC camera man Max Lomakin in 2013.
Although uncommon in European parts of the country, communal toilets are not unknown in other areas.
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