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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Sochi

Black Sea resort in Russia, ultimately from the name of the Cherkess (Circassian) people who live in the region, whose name is of uncertain origin.

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Sochi

Sochi is a city in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located on the Black Sea coast near the border between Georgia/ Abkhazia and Russia. The Greater Sochi area, which includes territories and localities subordinated to Sochi proper, has a total area of and sprawls for along the shores of the Black Sea near the Caucasus Mountains. The area of the city proper is . According to the 2010 Census, the city had a permanent population of 343,334, up from 328,809 recorded in the 2002 Census, making it Russia's largest resort city. Being part of the Caucasian Riviera, it is one of the very few places in Russia with a subtropical climate, with warm to hot summers and mild winters.

With the alpine and Nordic events held at the nearby ski resort of Roza Khutor in Krasnaya Polyana, Sochi hosted the XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games in 2014, as well as the Russian Formula 1 Grand Prix from 2014 until at least 2020. It will also be one of the host cities for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

Sochi (disambiguation)

Sochi is a city in Krasnodar Krai, Russia.

Sochi may also refer to:

  • Sochi Urban Okrug, a municipal formation which the City of Sochi in Krasnodar Krai, Russia is incorporated as
  • Sochi River, a river in Krasnodar Krai, Russia
  • Sochi International Airport, an airport in Sochi, Russia
  • Sochi railway station, a railway station in Krasnodar Krai, Russia
  • Port of Sochi, a Russian sea port on the Black Sea
  • FC Sochi-04, an association football club based in Sochi, Russia
  • HC Sochi, an ice hockey team based in Sochi, Russia

Usage examples of "sochi".

Little Tamara would stay home where she belonged with her father, the distinguished head of the Sochi Institute of Mental Health.

And so she denied her birthright and went to Sochi just before the Great Patriotic War.

It must be spring in Sochi now, with flowers blooming and birds singing in the palm trees.

Kovansky has owned a series of dachas in the Sochi region, moving from one to another more luxurious as his influence expanded.

He and his family hadn't gotten a time slot at Sochi the previous summer—the KGB quota had been filled in July and August—and so they had gone without.

On Arkady's return, Nikitin immediately got himself shipped to Sochi, from which he had daily sent long penitent letters.

An older woman always had a lower, in this case one lined with pillows from other ports – Sochi, Tripoli, Tangiers – so that Madame Malzeva could repose on a soft atlas.

Go someplace near Sochi where they clean you out, steam you in sulphur and pack you in hot mud.

They promised him weeks on the beaches at Sochi, comfortable apartments anywhere in the country.