Sochi

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Tourism

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.[1]

Sochi

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.

History

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.

1981

Fashionistas in "firmé" look for prey at a disco, Sochi, 1981.

1973

Bright and colorful embankment in Soviet Sochi, 1973.

1961

Yuri Gagarin vacationing in Sochi, 1961

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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