I was born in the western urals,

no tam ochen' kholodno zimoy -20

I now live in the city of Sochi. I work as a tour operator, but due to coronavirus and QR codes there is no work at all

History of Sochi: explaining in order
The supermodern Sochi stretches from Magri to the border Psou - a city under which the land remembers the ancient kingdoms, ancient wars, the achievements of the last century and the last decades, which turned it into the tourist capital of southern Russia.

Coming here, travelers admire the beauty of natural landscapes, seascapes and clear progress in the appearance of the metropolis. At the same time, many do not even suspect what treasures the founders of the region left to their contemporaries.

Primitive communal system
The oldest traces of human habitation in the vicinity of Sochi suggest that the first people appeared here 400-350 thousand years ago. In all likelihood, they penetrated here through Colchis from Asia Minor. The sites of that time were found in Akhshtyrskaya, Malaya Vorontsovskaya, First and Second Khostinskaya caves, and Atsinskaya cave.

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The origin of the name of the city of Sochi and a brief history
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According to the Turkish historian and geographer Elviy elebi, the city of Sochi was named in honor of the Adyg tribe “Socha” who lived in this area. However, the Circassians themselves do not agree with this opinion. They refer to the map of Circassia, published in the 19th century, where the village "Shacha" is marked. In the Byzantine chronicles, you can find a mention of the inhabitants of the eastern coast of the Black Sea sagids, in Latin "sachi". Be that as it may, since the 19th century, Sochi began to belong to Russia, and the foreign name became familiar and familiar to everyone.

However, the history of Sochi does not begin with the 19th century. Since ancient times, people have lived here, on the territory of the modern resort you can find traces of ancient civilizations. The Zikhs, the ancestors of the present Adygs, were the first to settle here. During antiquity, the land was part of the Byzantine Empire, the local population adopts Christianity. In the area of ​​modern Loo, you can find the remains of a Byzantine basilica from the 6th century. Since the 16th century, the territory of present-day Sochi has come under the close scrutiny of the Ottoman Empire, after the Russian-Turkish war, part of it formally belongs to Russia. But only as a result of the Caucasian War, since 1864, Sochi is officially part of the Russian lands.

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