Sochi, Russia

Sochi, Russia

In this city, everything draws your eyes, especially pavement cafes scattered on the street «Ostro Vskuvu» in the middle, under the cypress and the outside terrace of a cafe Austrovskuvu which bears the name of the same street you find every morning a crowd of young people and businessmen who sip Turkish coffee morning, heat does not exceed 25 degrees Celsius and palm trees, hibiscus, oleander and spread extensively on aspects of the roads and in parks and it paints a clear panel net spring colored background with a blue sky ..

We are in southern Russia, in Sochi on the Black Sea, also known as «Riviera

Caucasus »She holds centuries of culture and influence and Ottoman eras caesarean section then communism preparing this city to recover by restoring their beauty and luster of the traumatized and control of the rich and the neo-conservatives it.

The Sochi, a new breath of life after sitting astride the Russian for a long time on the throne of treatment plants and natural mineral water ready for the year 2014 to the city should be example for the Winter Olympic Games.

The history of the city from the beach «Matsista» 20 kilometers to the north-east and in the ninth century with the discovery of sources of mineral water and sulfur in this beach. Sochi has grown and flourished as a main center for treatment of natural mineral water warm.

It became famous more and more starting in 1909 a major summer resort of the Caucasus and the Caucasus knew Balrivira Thanks to its location in the middle of a wonderful park and enjoying spectacular views of the Black Sea.

Russian Tsar and his entourage stayed in Sochi before it grow and spread Bolshevik revolution against Tsarist rule. The key development of the city is due to the decision of

Joseph Stalin in 1934 to transfer to the main station for physiotherapy. And started

Construction process on this subject, but the occurrence of World War II delayed the implementation of the Stalinist planned for Sochi.

In World War II, the Nazi army was not able to enter the city but stayed away from a distance of 150 km to the north «Toyabs». Between 1941 and 1945 turned the city into a giant hospital treatment centers and all the mineral water has turned into hospitals and health centers to treat the wounded from the war until hotel «Premorskaya» in turn, turned to the hospital No. 95 in the city.

The second period of growth the city was between 1950 and 1980 during the golden age of Soviet state has reached the number of visitors to the city to more than 4 million each year, mostly from staff members and cooperative collective then known Balsofajomat and Alkokhawmat in the Russian language and who spend their vacations there. Even President Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev was a weekly regularly spends his vacations in the city as well as the command for the members of the central leadership of the Soviet Communist Party and their assistants.

«Sochi» modern station was a lot of hotels and resorts and was frequented by tourists from outside the Soviet Union, especially from Eastern Europe and some other countries but on a small scale.

Modern

After 1991, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Sochi sank into chaos and organized gangs. But all that stopped and things are after the year 2000 began as a radical shift is moving towards development and security. And has become a city to say the least it was modern, nice home to many events and celebrations, carnivals and film festivals. Tourist destination of the remote areas in Russia and other countries.

In different seasons, especially summer of crowds in many Railway Station of Sochi with the iron-lit, one of the most beautiful features of the city, which was built in 1952 has been refurbished and updated by the company Turkey large in 1998, and covers multiple destinations such as: Kaliningrad, Mofoseperk, and Siberia. It must be said that the trip on the train through the mountainous areas and plains in Russia is very fun and happiness, and words can not describe it.

Despite all the construction and modernization, which are underway in preparation for receiving the Winter Olympics of 2014 the city still maintain some of the main and most important landmarks of old factories Maurice Torres on the production of military aircraft in World War II.

After the nineties re-construction and renovation of most treatment centers according to the latest international standards and which have been preserved as a building of marble, built in 1940 in the Stalinist era, which was and remains an important center for comfort, for treatment, and recreation.

Santorpiz

In the month of May each year scent of flowers and roses in various parts of the city green and this explains the love of the Russians to Sochi, which allows visitors to spend enjoyable times and outlined in the arms of the mountains and across scenic nature, and then go to shower and enjoy the sun of the Black Sea and its shores, unique and this is very important in a vast country like Russia.

A walk in the city given the opportunity to see modern shops with prestigious international brands, amusement dancing in the open air, and restaurants, which includes private beaches provide a cocktail of Russian songs interlaced with oriental music, which gives them the ultimate goal.

Stars and celebrities

The city is about 400 thousand people make up civil society in the city in July and August, notes the existence of the newly rich abundance where movie stars to the artists and athletes, mostly Iotunha by private jets from Moscow or St. Petersburg or the Urals, here money is king in perpetual motion takes you to the environment similar to San Tropez, French and this is the logic of things as the Sochi and since the breakup of the Soviet Union is the only offshore site in Russia. Previously, competition Yalta but Khrushchev granted the Crimean peninsula to Ukraine in 1954.

The clouds hanging on the Caucasus Mountains on the one hand «Krasnaya Bulelna» to the place where the tests will be skiing for the Winter Olympic Games in 2014. Even before the formal launch took Sochi is preparing to host this great event and began a giant projects to cope with this matter and make a radical change before the lighting of the Olympic torch in 2014.

Model for the future of Sochi is displayed in the Museum of Fine Arts, said that the draft notice supernatural create an artificial archipelago such as exists in Dubai, but the size is even larger.

Heads of giving it a new spirit

Admiral Gainski (86 years), ethnic Ukrainians served in the Soviet Navy for 40 years and was wounded in 1943 with the illness and treated in Sochi and there chose his partner, and since that date did not leave the city at all. Sochi has played a pivotal role in the history of the Russian people, more than 500 wounded in the second war were treated in hospitals in this city.

In 1945, the city also remained calm, Stalin contributed significantly to the growth has worked on building roads, bridges, theaters winter, and open-air theaters and treatment centers. Has accorded special attention and all government agencies had come to rest and calm and to spend holidays on the Black Sea coast and there is no other place gives this potential magnitude. After the collapse of the Soviet state in 1991, and relocation of many state institutions to the private sector and the result was that many people do not have the money to come to Sochi for vacation or for processing, I have gone through years of darkness over the city and left a great void.

For many, the former Russian president, who is now prime minister Vladimir Putin has played a pivotal role in the regeneration of the city of Sochi and give real impetus plucked from the shadow she lived in for years.

Putin and Stalin before him were both Maestro actual growth of the city and its development, and currently Sochi entirely different from that in the past but never remain an attractive and beautiful and wonderful, but not extraordinary.

Accommodation

Sochi Breeze Hotel (3 stars) is located near the botanical gardens, gives you a pleasant stay for 70 euros and above per night includes a center of Spa.

Telephone: 0078622663800

Hotel Park (Park Hotel 4 stars) according to international and global standards is located in the city center and close to the sea per night starting from 160 euros.

Phone: 00786226930

Restaurants, parks

Hiking in the Primorsky, where there are bars and restaurants with European kitchens, cooks Algiorgiin, in addition to orchestra music, Russian and Georgian. Full lunch around 25 euros in the wonderful atmosphere of breathtaking.

There is also a restaurant which provides food Fidan Azerbaijan (Baku) price lunch 10 euros.