Rosa Khutor Ski Resort Development Company

Rosa Khutor is the first ski eco-resort in Russia, which is designed in accordance with the norms of Russian environmental legislation and taking into account international environmental standards.

History

Main article: Main Caucasian Range

2003: Establishing a company to build a resort

Rosa Khutor Ski Resort Development Company LLC was established by Interros in 2003 to build and develop the Rosa Khutor ski resort (Rosa Khutor GLK) in the vicinity of the village of Krasnaya Polyana near Sochi. The project included the creation of a unique year-round world-class resort, within which a number of Olympic facilities were built, including a ski center, snowboard park, freestyle center, and a mountain Olympic village.

1886: Arrival of 30 Estonian families and establishment of Estosadok and Roosa Farm settlements

In 1886, more than 30 families from Estonia moved to the Krasnaya Polyana area in search of a better fate. They founded a separate settlement, which we now call Estosadoc. One of the Estonian immigrants named Adul Roosa settled on a remote farm, which people called Roosa Farm. The farm has not been preserved, and the name, somewhat changed, remains today the so-called mountain plateau on the slope of Aibgi and the resort "Rosa Khutor."

Monuments of archeology

Archaeological Museum in Rosa Khutor, photo TAdviser, 2025

Barrows

On both sides of the Main Caucasian Range, as well as on the mountain glades around Krasnaya Polyana and Rosa Khutor, there are hills of different sizes poured by people in ancient times. In most cases, these are mounds. Read more here.

Ancient Sanctuary

In 2010, during archaeological excavations, preceding the construction of the ski slope, a unique sanctuary was investigated, built no later than the beginning of І thousand AD. e.

Radiocarbon analysis showed that in the fifth century C.E., a sanctuary had already existed at the site for a long time. Judging by the finds of ceramics, it was erected by the same people who lived on the mountainside northwest of the lower station of the Wolf Rock cable car near Rosa Khutor.

In the center of the complex, a flat triangular altar plate was laid on the ground, which weighed about 3.5 tons. Three pointed menhirs (translated from Breton "long stone") with a height of 160 to 180 cm were vertically placed around it on three sides. Their base was dug into the ground and hammered with small stones.

To the south of the complex with menhirs, three more small vertical stones were found in the covers. Next to them was a large stone, the surface of which carried numerous traces of blows.

To the east of this stone was a circular pit with a flat bottom, covered with stones, either remaining from a huge pillar with a diameter of about 90 cm, or a boiler could stand in it. The sanctuary was destroyed during a terrible earthquake in the middle - second half of І thousand AD. e. As a result of the earthquake, two of the three menhirs fell on the altar slab, and the third menhir was split by an earthquake so that the menhira root remained in place, and the upper most moved 2 m to the south.

Later, the sanctuary was mothballed by people - it was covered with earth so that no one could desecrate it, and a fence of stones and trees was built around it so that no one would enter the territory of the deceased sanctuary.

See also

• Krasnaya Polyana Resort