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2025
Russia's first bulk island for ₽1 trillion will be built off the coast of Sochi
The founder and managing director of the Island of the First Corporation Bulat Shakirov at the end of January 2025 presented a project for the construction of the first artificial island in Russia for resort purposes off the coast of Sochi, the implementation of which is estimated at ₽1 trillion. Read more here.
Turyev Khutor resort to be built in Sochi for ₽80 billion
In the second quarter of 2026, Interros will begin construction of a hotel complex and the main ski area of the Turyev Khutor resort in Sochi. This became known on January 21, 2025 from the press service of the company. Read more here.
2024: Annual tourist flow in Sochi increased by 400 thousand to a record 8 million people
The Sochi city administration recorded a record tourist flow of 8 million people in 2024, which is 400 thousand more than in 2023 and is 37% of the total number of tourists in the Krasnodar Territory. TAdviser got acquainted with such data in January 2025.
According to the official Internet portal of the city of Sochi, 170 landscaped beaches with a total length of 40 km operate at the resort, of which 51 received federal classification, and 42 are marked with the Blue Flag sign. For people with limited mobility, 40 beaches are equipped.
In 2024, 19 new accommodation places opened in the city, including the children's sanatorium Pearl"" and the sanatorium "Revital Park." The Zapolyarye sanatorium is preparing to open a new modular building for 44 rooms.
The number of catering establishments increased by 6%, exceeding 2 thousand objects from 100.6 thousand boarding places. The total cost of services in the resort and tourist complex reached ₽69,1 billion.
 | The current tourist flow rate has become the highest in the more than century history of Sochi as a resort, - said the head of the city of Sochi Andrei Proshunin. |  |
The resort "Rosa Khutor" has created the largest ski area in Russia with a length of 105 km of tracks, which serve 32 modern lifts. For tourists there are children's centers, a museum of archeology with augmented reality technologies and various mountain attractions.
Recreational activities are organized in the resort, including dog sledding, a visit to Pacha Mama Park with Peruvian alpacas and reindeer farms.
According to Andrei Proshunin, Sochi remains one of the main tourist destinations in Russia. The city administration will continue to work on improving the level of service and the quality of services for resort guests.[1]
2023: Annual tourist flow in Sochi increased by 6% to a record 7.6 million people
In 2023, the tourist flow to Sochi reached a record 7.6 million people, which is 5.8%, or 400 thousand tourists, more in comparison with 2022. The mayor of the resort city Alexei Kopaygorodsky cited such data in his Telegram channel at the end of December 2023.
| | We continue to develop the main resort of our country and expand the range of services of the sanatorium and resort complex. In the coming years, new modern accommodation facilities will appear in Sochi. We predict an increase in the total tourist flow by 2030 to 10 million tourists per year, he said.[2] | |
In November 2023, Alexei Kopaygorodsky said that 51 tourist and excursion routes were opened in Sochi. 44 beaches passed federal certification, which is six more territories than a year earlier. The beaches were supplemented with 36 new sports and 24 playgrounds.
According to the press service of the Sochi administration, by the end of 2023, 174 km of ski slopes are available to tourists of the city on the territory of the ski cluster. In 2023, a single skating zone connected the resorts Gazprom Alpika and Rosa Khutor, which will allow vacationers to visit the territories on a single ski pass.
In 2023, 57 new tourist and excursion kiosks were installed in Sochi. By the beginning of the summer season, their number will increase to 300. The city has at least 2 thousand catering facilities for 93 thousand boarding places. More than 230 restaurants buy food from local manufacturers.
| | We must constantly work to expand the capabilities of our sanatorium-resort complex so that people can receive the full range of services, from excursions and ecological tourism, to balneology and medical procedures. All objects of the industry should be provided with the necessary assistance to modernize and improve infrastructure, - noted Alexey Kopaygorodsky in November 2023. | |
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2024:347 billion rubles allocated for the development of the sanatorium and resort complex in Sochi
Until 2026, it is planned to invest more than 347 billion rubles in the renovation of sanatoriums and hotels in Sochi. The investments will significantly increase the number of rooms of the resort by 15.3 thousand seats, the Governor of the Krasnodar Territory Veniamin Kondratyev said at the end of May 2024.
| | We continue the active development of the sanatorium complex. Work has already begun on the construction of the Primorskaya hotel complex with the necessary infrastructure, as well as the reconstruction of the Volna sanatorium and the Kristall boarding house in the Khostinsky district, Kondratyev emphasized. | |
The governor noted that 134 large projects are being implemented in the Krasnodar Territory. In 2024, 48 hotels and sanatorium-resort complexes are being built, many of which belong to the category of four and five stars. The total investment in these projects exceeds 503 billion rubles.
According to Kondratyev, after the completion of all projects by 2030, more than 34 thousand new numbers will appear. This is an important step for the development of resort areas, which attract more tourists every year. In 2023, the tourist flow amounted to 18.6 million people, and in 2024 it is predicted to increase to 19 million guests.
He added that the LSR Group is engaged in the reconstruction of the Volna sanatorium and the Kristall boarding house in Sochi. The investor plans to invest more than 24 billion rubles in these facilities.
According to the Bronevik.com service, at the end of May 2024, the number of bookings to the Black Sea resorts in the summer months increased by 15-20% compared to the same period last year. The largest share of bookings is recorded in Greater Sochi - 58%. Anapa ranks second with 25%, followed by Gelendzhik with 12%. 3% of tourists from the Black Sea coast book hotels in Tuapse, and 2% in Novorossiysk[3]
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2024: Sochi Mayor Alexei Kopaygorodsky resigns
Sochi Mayor Alexei Kopaygorodsky in May 2024 announced his resignation.
Governor of Kuban Veniamin Kondratyev accepted this news with the words: "Leaving the post of mayor of Sochi is your decision, and I cannot disagree with him."
The powers of the mayor passed to the first deputy Svetlana Kalinina.
Alexey Kopaygorodsky has served as mayor since 2019. He managed to clean the ranks of negligent developers, demolish several dozen structures. Under him, a moratorium was also introduced on new high-rise construction in Sochi and the General Plan of the city was prepared. The mayor actively fought with the format of apartments on the site of old Soviet boarding houses.
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1869: Education of the City
When the city was formed in 1869, the name Sochi already existed. His early name was Sadsha, after the name of the Ukhybsky tribe, which lived there in 1641. In translation, the word meant those who descended by the sea. During the debt period, "Sadsha" endured changes as a result of which it was reduced to "Sasha" in the sound of the Abkhaz "Socha" for the Ukhib name.
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