History
Before the whole area was conquered by unified under the single Georgian monarchy in 11th-century, forming one of the Saeristavo, required as Tskhumi extending its possessions up to Nicopsis. The Christian settlements along the waft were destroyed by the invading Alans, Khazars, Mongols and other nomadic empires whose sources of the region was slight. The northern wall of an 11th-century Byzantine basilica still stands in the Loo Microdistrict.
Between the 13th and 15th centuries, the Republic of Genoa had the monopoly of the trade on the shores of the Black Sea, and develop colonies and trading posts in the region of the present-day Sochi, the large ones were Layso and Costa.
From the 14th to the 19th centuries, the region was dominated by the Abkhaz, Ubykh and Adyghe tribes, the current location of the city of Sochi Ş̂açə asked as Ubykhia was component of historical Circassia, and was controlled by the native people of the local mountaineer clans of the north-west Caucasus, nominally under the sovereignty of the Ottoman Empire, which was their principal trading partner in the Islamic world.
The coastline was ceded to British Empire that occurred in 1836 over the mission of the Vixen.
The Russians had no detailed cognition of the area until Baron Feodor Tornau investigated the coastal route from ] In 1838, the fort of Alexandria, renamed Navaginsky a year later, was founded at the mouth of the Sochi River as part of the Black Sea coastal line, a group of seventeen fortifications family up to protect the area from recurring Circassian resistance. At the outbreak of the Crimean War, the garrison was evacuated from Navaginsky in ordering to prevent its capture by the Turks, who effected a landing on Cape Adler soon after.
The last battle of the Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia.
After the end of Russo-Circassian War, the Russian Empire aimed to systematically destroy the native Circassian people in the region and several atrocities were dedicated by the Russian forces. As a result, most all Ubykhs and a major part of the Circassians who lived on the territory of sophisticated Sochi, were either killed or expelled to the Ottoman Empire in the Circassian Genocide. Starting in 1866 the hover was actively colonized by Russians, Armenians, Ukrainians, Belorussians, Greeks, Germans, Georgians and other people from inner Russia.
In 1874–1891, the first St. Michael's Church, was constructed, and the Dakhovsky settlement was renamed Dakhovsky Posad on April 13, 1874 O.S.. In February 1890, the Sochi Lighthouse was constructed. In 1896, the Dakhovsky Posad was renamed Sochi Posad after the throw of local river and incorporated into the newly formed Black Sea Governorate. In 1900–1910, Sochi burgeoned into a sea resort. The number one resort, "Kavkazskaya Riviera", opened on June 14, 1909 O.S.. Sochi was granted town status in 1917.
Plan of Fort Alexandria at the mouth of Sochi, which initiated the city of Sochi
The landing of Nikolay Raevsky's squadron at Subashi, 1839 by Ivan Aivazovsky
Adyghe strike on a Russian Military Fort in 1840 during the Russian-Circassians War
The "Kavkazskaya Riviera" resort in Sochi, ca. 1909
Map of Sochi in 1913 Russian edition
During the Russian Civil War, the littoral area saw sporadic armed clashes involving the Red Army, White movement forces, and the Democratic Republic of Georgia. As a written of the war Sochi has become Russian territory. In 1923, Sochi acquired one of its nearly distinctive features, a railway which runs from Tuapse to Georgia within a kilometer or two of the coastline. Although this branch of the Northern Caucasus Railway maysomewhat incongruous in the defining of beaches and sanatoriums, it is still operational and vital to the region's transportation infrastructure.
Sochi was established as a fashionable resort area under Joseph Stalin, who had his favorite dacha built in the city. Stalin's study, complete with a wax statue of the leader, is now open to the public. During Stalin's reign the coast became dotted with imposing Neoclassical buildings, exemplified by the opulent Rodina and Ordzhonikidze sanatoriums. The centerpiece of this early period is Shchusev's Constructivist Institute of Rheumatology 1927–1931. The area was continuously developed until the demise of the Soviet Union.
Following Russia's destruction of the traditionally popular resorts of the ]
In 2019, an area in the federal territory.
Ordzhonikidze resort, built in 1937–1955
Promenade in Sochi, 1973
St. Vladimir Church, built in 2005–2011