Sochi (rus)

Sochi

Sochi ranks 1,567th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Lecco, Bückeburg, and Livingston, New Jersey. Memorable people born in Sochi include Boris Nemtsov, Andre Geim, and Slava Metreveli. Memorable people who died in Sochi include Ivan Goremykin, Mikael Tariverdiev, and Alexander Bestuzhev. Sochi has been the birth place of many tennis players, and soccer players and the death place of many politicians, and composers. Sochi is located in Russia.

Sochi 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, and up to 600,000 residents in the urban area. The city covers an area of 176.77 square kilometers (68.25 sq mi), while the Greater Sochi Area covers over 3,502 square kilometers (1,352 sq mi). Sochi stretches across 145 kilometers (90 mi), and is the longest city in Europe, the fifth-largest city in the Southern Federal District, the second-largest city in Krasnodar Krai, and the sixth-largest city on the Black Sea. Read more on Wikipedia