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Sochi (Russian: Сочи, IPA: ⓘ, from Ubykh: Шъуача – seaside) is the largest resort city in Russia. The city is situated on the Sochi River , along the Black Sea in Southern Russia , with a population of 466,078 residents, [12] and up to 600,000 residents in the urban area.
History of Sochi. View of Sochi River and Sochi from the west, photo ca. 1905–1915. The area of the Russian city of Sochi was populated more than 100,000 years by ancient people of Asia Minor migrating through Colchis (olden Georgia ). Ancient Greeks sailed to the region via the Black Sea in the 5th–6th centuries BC and encountered the ...
The Circassians or Circassian people, also called Cherkess or Adyghe ( Adyghe and Kabardian: Адыгэхэр, romanized: Adygekher) are a Northwest Caucasian ethnic group and nation who originated in Circassia, a region and former country in the North Caucasus. [26] As a consequence of the Circassian genocide, which was perpetrated by the ...
The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially called the XXII Olympic Winter Games ( Russian: XXII Олимпийские зимние игры, romanized :XXII Olimpiyskiye zimniye igry) and commonly known as Sochi 2014 ( Russian: Сочи 2014 ), were an international winter multi-sport event that was held from 7 to 23 February 2014 in Sochi, Russia.
The Circassian genocide, [10] [11] or Tsitsekun, [a] [b] was the Russian Empire 's systematic mass murder, ethnic cleansing, and expulsion of 95–97% [c] [d] of the Circassian population, resulting in 1 to 1.5 million deaths [15] [e] during the final stages of the Russo-Circassian War. [16] [17] [18] The peoples planned for extermination were ...
During the lead-up to the 2014 Winter Olympics, protests and campaigns arose surrounding the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in Russia.. Concerns for LGBT athletes and supporters during the Games began as early as March 2012, when a Russian judge blocked the establishment of a Pride House in Sochi, ruling that "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relationships" would ...
Sochi conflict. The Sochi conflict was a three-party armed conflict which involved the counterrevolutionary White Russian forces, Bolshevik Red Army and the Democratic Republic of Georgia, each of which sought control over the strategic Black Sea town of Sochi.
Circassia [b] ( / sɜːrˈkæʃə / sir-KASH-ə ), also known as Zichia, [8] [9] was a country and a historical region in the North Caucasus. Located along the northeastern shore of the Black Sea, [10] [11] it was conquered by the Russian Empire during the Russo-Circassian War (1763–1864), after which approximately 90% of the Circassian ...