Tourist attractions and impressions. Lazarevskoye, Sochi

Everyone knows that greater Sochi consists of several villages. The largest of them is the Lazarevskoye settlement. Of the 145 km of the Greater Sochi sea line, 110 km belongs to Lazarevskoye.

The founders of the village are Maltese Greeks. In honor of them, the Lazarevsky railway station has a white color and a blue roof. Representatives of more than 100 nationalities live in Lazarevskoye. People are used to this multinational coexistence and get along well together.

Hotels now usually have free guided tours of local attractions. Earlier I told you about a tour of Pyatigorsk. This time we took a tour of Lazarevskoye. It should be noted that local guides talk about their cities with such love that their cities are the best on Earth. It is wonderful when a person loves his small Homeland.

Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev is a Russian naval commander and navigator, admiral who lived from the end of the 18th to the middle of the 19th century. He is the only participant in three round-the-world trips. The discoverer of Antarctica. He was sent to Lazarevskoye to protect and develop the region. And he made such a contribution that the whole village was named after him!

Monument to Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev

In addition to Lazarev, the village is inextricably linked with the names of outstanding military leaders, fighter pilots, heroes of the Soviet Union - Dmitry Leontievich Kalarash and Naum Zakharovich Pavlov. In 1942-43, Hitler rushed to the Caucasus to get oil. During the war, there were very heavy battles in Lazarevskoye. There are mass graves. These heroes also fell here withI kill the brave.

There are 4 main streets in the village: Lazarev, Pobedy, Pavlova and Kalarasha.

If you go for a walk along Victory Street, you will see the hunting lodge of the Von Oldenburg family. Even before the 1917 revolution, the house was donated to the Lazarevsky administration. They made a hospital out of it and still the house serves people, and is a tuberculosis dispensary.

If you go a little further to the center, there is a mass grave up in the mountains along this street. We couldn't get up there, but we listened to a story about the heroic deeds of our soldiers.

Also on Victory Street is the former building of the Greek merchant Popondopala. Now it is an ethnographic museum.

Next we go to the Voskhod cinema. Opened in the 60s of the last century, it still works, and now it has been transformed into a modern entertainment complex CinemaStar.

Next to the cinema there is a monument to Vasily Alekseevich Vatagin, an animal artist who painted images for Kipling's book "Mowgli". The characters of the fairy tale stand around the monument. The whole exposition looks interesting and unusual.

Next, you will meet the Lazarevsky unique Center of National Cultures named after K.S. Mazlumyan. There are many groups of different nationalities involved in it. 42 collectives were awarded the title of folk. Near the center there is a stele with a dove of peace.

We pass through the park and exit to the north of Odoevsky. Alexander Ivanovich Odoevsky (1802;1839) was a Russian writer, philosopher and Decembrist from the Odoevsky family. A descendant of the Rurik family. A man of encyclopedic knowledge. He died in Lazarevskoye.

On the embankment there is a monument to fallen wars and civilians killed by the Nazis.

By the way, this year the embankment next to the monument was flooded. The monument was not damaged, but a strong and beautiful sea overflowed its banks for several tens of meters and brought so much earth and stones ashore that it had to be removed by trucks.

Then we walked along the embankment and the park.

On a separate day, we walked along the embankment of the Psezupse River. In Lazarevskoye, this river flows into the Black Sea. Here you can look at the mountain river, houses located right on the mountains, and a suspension bridge over the river. It is a very calm and beautiful place.

Lazarevskoye is a very pleasant and cozy village. There are many sanatoriums, hotels, guest houses here. In spring, there are no crowds of tourists and the prices for accommodation and treatment are very low, the whole city is preparing to receive tourists.

It's not the first time I've come here. I hope that I will go again, and which place in Sochi do you like the most?