The International Symposium on Exotic Nuclei (EXON-2009) will be held in Sochi (Russia) next week. The symposium was organized by the leading scientific centers where exotic nuclei are intensively studied: JINR (Dubna), GANIL (Caen), RIKEN (Wako-shi), GSI (Darmstadt). The representatives of the world leading scientific centers will assemble in the capital of the Olympic Games of 2014 to discuss the newest scientific ideas, results, new accelerator and experimental projects in a wide range of research – from light exotic nuclei to superheavy elements.