Sochi

Sochi is one of the southernmost places of Russia and the second-largest city of Krasnodar Krai, with a population of 415,000. Located along the Black Sea coast, it is about 1,600 km south of Moscow. Sochi became world-known in 2007, when it won the bid …

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  • It may be nice to see it once... What is cool there is that you can do all at once: skiing because there snow at mountains and swimming (after just 20 minutes drive) because it is hardly ever cold at the coastside. • Tatiana P.
  • The train station of sochi is the nicest place to spend the night in the city if you have not a rouble in the pocket. • Benoit G.
  • Sochi is a difficult place to be, never really figured out how they want to host the winter games... traffic is a mess, expect hours of delay... Sandy beaches Nope, not here, just stones.. Tons of young russian girls but with their mothers a meter behind. The city is beautiful though, especially … • Michael S.
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Sochi Travel Guide is based on Sochi by Andrey Selskiy, Jonas Ryberg, cz, Slava Shirokov, Peter Fitzgerald, Globe-trotter, Texugo, Vidimian, iGuide and others. Sochi Travel Guide is available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. See background image credits.