Sochi, city and resort area of Krasnodar kray (territory), southwestern Russia. The city stretches along the Black Sea coast at the foot of the western part of the main Caucasus mountain range. Sochi was established in 1896 on the site of the former Navaginskoye fort and began developing as a resort area in 1902.
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The city is situated on the Sochi River, along the Black Sea in Southern Russia, with a population of 466,078 residents, and up to 600,000 residents in the ...
The area of the Russian city of Sochi was populated more than 100,000 years by ancient people of Asia Minor migrating through Colchis (olden Georgia).
In 1909 the first sanatorium was opened in Sochi and it became a popular resort in the Russian Empire, officially gaining the status of a resort-city in 1917.
Jun 1, 2018 · From the 7th to 11th centuries A.D., the area was influenced by the neighboring kingdoms of Abkhazia and Georgia. Genoa established several ...
Feb 7, 2014 · History has largely been kind to Alexander II, the Russian czar who freed the serfs in 1861, just two years before Abraham Lincoln issued ...