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City of Sochi

Sochi is the largest resort of the Russian Federation. It stretches for 147 km along the Black Sea coast of Krasnodar region. Our city is surrounded by the chain of high Caucasian Mountains which coming nearer to the sea and protect Sochi from the cold northern air. Mild subtropical climate, high mountains with the plenty of greenery, warm azure sea, healing mineral and Matsesta water springs - all of these features make Sochi one of the world's best seaside, mountain climate and balneological health resorts.
Geographical situation. Sochi is situated on the same parallel circle as Toronto, Nice and Gobi desert. It borders Georgian Republic in the south.

Population of Sochi is more then 400.000 inhabitants. Annually 3 million of tourists come here to get medical treatment and leisure.

The city is divided into 4 administrative districts: Adler, Khosta, Central and Lazarevsky.

Climate and nature. As soon as our city is situated between the Caucasian Mountains and the Black Sea we enjoy the most northern subtropical climate on Earth. The average winter temperature reaches +8..+10 degrees, in summer it gets warmed thoroughly to +40 degrees. Usually we have 200 sunny days in a year. You may swim in the sea here from April till October, and go in for skiing from October till May.

Coming here you enter the paradise of palms, bananas, citric and other ever-green trees. More then 80 per cent of city's territory belong to Caucasian Biosphere National Park and protected from any pollution.

Healing and tourist complex is the leading branch of economy and the Russian largest one. Nowadays it is represented by 223 big and middle sanatoria. The average cost per night in sanatorium is 892 RUR. Some kinds of illnesses of cardiovascular and nervous systems, locomotor apparatus, dermatic and gyneacologic illnesses are treated here effectively.
The structure of air, railway, automobile and sea transportation, the number of high-class sanatoria, hotels and pensions meet the requirements of national and international festivals, forums, fairs and sport competitions.

The President's residence and some highest-level meetings held here made an image of Sochi as the Summer Capital of Russia.

Industry. There are 44 big and middle enterprises of different ownership in Sochi. The industry mainly consists of building materials and food industries.

Agriculture. Agricultural complex is a combination of 25 farms, 9 food and processing companies, 10 service and research firms. All of them are oriented to satisfy all needs of the city.

Small business. Small business now is one of the most important components of economy. There are 22388 small businesses in Sochi, 4478 of them are small enterprises. The contribution margin of small business in the economy is constantly rising as well as the quality of the personnel. We also must confess the increase of efficiency of small business.
Religion. There are a lot of religious orientations and different nations in Sochi. The city is inhabited by people of 100 nations who profess Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Islam, Buddhism etc.
Education. Sochi is the Federal experimental testing ground for educational innovations and projects. There are 78 municipal secondary schools, 54 pre-school institutions, 19 initial schools, 33 professional education centres, 2 centres of professional orientation and 25 peripheral schools. 6670 teachers are involved in education activity. 59246 pupils are learning in Sochi simultaneously.

Sport. Annually Sochi hosts several international and national competitions in light athletics, tennis, football, volleyball, sailing.

Phone code: 8622

Time: Moscow (+3 GMT)

Language: Russian

Currency: Russian rouble


 

 

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