A top Georgian politician on Tuesday threatened a boycott against the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Russian city of Sochi if Moscow included a rebel province of Georgia in construction plans.

Nino Burdzhanadze was responding to comments made by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov, who said building materials for Olympic facilities could be brought to Sochi from neighbouring Abkhazia.

"He clearly forgot that Russian jurisdiction does not extend over the territory of Abkhazia," Burdzhanadze said in an interview with Russia's Vremya Novostei daily published on Tuesday.

Abkhazia, which is located a few kilometres from Sochi on the Black Sea coast, broke away from the former Soviet republic of Georgia in the 1990s in a conflict which cost thousands of lives.

The province exists as a de facto independent statelet that is not recognised by any country in the world but receives broad diplomatic and economic assistance from Russia.

"If Russia tries to ignore the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Georgia... I assure you there will be the same situation as with the Moscow Olympics in 1980 when the Soviet Union was boycotted," Burdzhanadze said.

The United States and dozens of other countries boycotted the Summer Olympics in Moscow in 1980 in protest at the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.