Adler occupies the southern part of the Sochi coast. This is the
most resort part of the city, where beach holidays are absolute, and
the sights are few and ordinary, with the exception of the Southern
Cultures Park, one of the best botanical gardens on the Black Sea
coast. Along with Krasnaya Polyana, Adler became the venue for the
2014 Winter Olympics, which brought huge new buildings to the city,
which, however, have yet to be used in everyday resort life.
Adler is located in the southern part of
Greater Sochi. In the past, only a village located at the
confluence of the Mzymta River with the Black Sea was called Adler,
but now that Adler has grown due to the resort and Olympic
construction, this name is used (at least in everyday life) for the
entire Black Sea coast - from Kudepsta of the Khostinsky district to
the Abkhaz borders. Modern Adler consists of several microdistricts:
immediately after Kudepsta begins the Resort Town - a narrow strip
of land, packed to capacity with cafes, hotels, sanatoriums and
other attributes of a beach holiday. Next is the Blue Dali
microdistrict, where the station is located. Behind him, after the
narrow river Herota, the center of Adler itself or the old Adler,
stretching to Mzymta. Behind Mzymta begins the Imeretinskaya lowland
with the objects of the 2014 Olympics.
It is believed that
the name Adler comes from the Turkish Artlar, but no one knows for
sure where the Turkish toponym came from. The Russian history of
Adler begins in 1837 with the construction of the Fort of the Holy
Spirit at the mouth of the Mzymta, one of the Black Sea
fortifications designed to protect these lands from Turkey and
pacify the recalcitrant Circassians. Unlike similar forts in Sochi
and Lazarevsky, the Adler fort was completely destroyed in 1854,
nothing was left of it at all. Ten years later, peace comes on the
Black Sea coast, migrants from different parts of Russia begin to go
to the Mzymta valley, but they prefer to settle further from the
coast - for example, the village of Moldovka stands 5 km from the
coast (where the runway of the Sochi airport now ends) - or at all
in the mountains, in Krasnaya Polyana. At the end of the 19th
century, the entire Sochi coast suffered from malaria, but Adler was
the most disastrous place in this sense: the disease was finally
eradicated here only in 1956. It is significant that the road from
Novorossiysk to Sukhumi, laid in 1898, bypassed Adler, so until the
mid-1930s there was not even a bridge across the river.
Adler
in the middle of the 20th century should not be considered a
completely outback place, but it never received the status of a
city: at first it was a village, and in 1961 it became part of
Greater Sochi. There is very little pre-revolutionary architecture
here (something was destroyed, but there was not much from the very
beginning), and Stalinist architecture bypassed the city - its weak
echo is the old station building, which, however, is even ridiculous
to compare with the Sochi station of the same period. However, since
the 1950s Adler is rapidly increasing its resort popularity,
becoming a cheap alternative to Sochi. This status is only
strengthened after the collapse of the USSR, when private hotels and
related infrastructure begin to grow here like mushrooms.
Preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympics have greatly changed the
face of Adler. On the one hand, there has been a huge development of
infrastructure: almost any Russian city will envy the new roads and
stations. On the other hand, the nature of the Imeretinskaya lowland
has been lost, the huge wild beach has disappeared, and in general
the situation has become more urban. In 2020, the territory between
the Mzymta and Psou rivers, together with the Olympic Park, was
transferred to the village of Sirius, the first federal territory in
Russia. Nevertheless, crowds of vacationers continue to go to Adler,
which is located, as it were, at a crossroads: the airport is
nearby, the mountain resorts of Krasnaya Polyana are in one
direction, the more pretentious Sochi is in the other, and the
extremely unpretentious Abkhazia is in the third. And at the same
time, it is still quite cheap here, but, thanks to the Olympics,
there are also options for expensive comfortable living. For
travelers who are not prone to beach holidays, Adler is a pure
transit point where it is convenient to stay, but there is
practically nothing to see, unless, of course, you are looking for
special ethnographic impressions in the crowds of vacationers
huddling on a tiny dirty beach and eating barbecue to unbearably
loud pop music. However, in winter there is none of this, and you
can see completely different things - for example, take a closer
look at the local population. There are a lot of Armenians in Adler,
and in general they say that the city is completely non-Russian.
Old Adler is bounded from the north by the Herota River, and from the
south by the Mzymta. This is the historical part of the city, in which,
of course, you will find mostly remodels, although, walking through the
back streets, you can find a lot of pre-war and post-war buildings of
the 1930s and 50s. - mostly light beige two-story houses without any
decor. This was Adler before becoming a big resort.
1 Adler
lighthouse, st. Enlightenment, 21 (embankment). Built in 1898, that is,
only a few years later than Sochi. From the outside it looks somehow
modern and boring, they are not allowed inside. Tower height 11 m,
visibility range 13 miles.
2 St. Sarkis Cathedral, st. Bestuzheva,
22. A modern Armenian temple (1993-98), which, frankly, looks like an
Armenian no more than a Russian one or something else. Even in Armenia,
modern temple architecture looks different, retaining at least some
continuity. However, the shape of the building is quite interesting. It
consists of separate, stepped tiers, forming a mountain - either
Golgotha, or Ararat. Next to the temple there is a miniature belfry and
several beautiful carved crosses - khachkars. A monument to the
passengers of the Yerevan plane that crashed in Adler in 2006 was also
made in an unexpected form of a twisted khachkar.
3 Church of the
Holy Spirit, st. Kirova, 22a. The architecture of this new church is
reminiscent of an old Russian palace with a tower roof. Inside there is
not only a church, but also a Sunday school, so it turns out a kind of
tower with a dome. The old Church of the Holy Spirit existed in Adler in
1898, destroyed in 1947. From it, a cross remained on the territory - a
mass grave of soldiers who died during the Caucasian War of 1877.
4
Holy Trinity Church, st. Kirova, 22a. Adjacent to the previous one.
Another new church (1993-98), built as a replacement for the same church
of the Holy Spirit destroyed in 1947. The architecture of the temple is
unlikely to arouse your interest, but the fact of its location on the
site of the old Fort of the Holy Spirit is curious, even if nothing
remains of the fort.
5 Bestuzhevsky park and monument to Bestuzhev,
st. Bestuzhev. A small square adjoining the beach on one side and the
Armenian Cathedral on the other. This is also the location of the Fort
of the Holy Spirit, but the obelisk installed in the park does not
remind of him, but of the death of the most famous founder of Adler, the
writer and Decembrist A. A. Bestuzhev-Marlinsky, who was demoted by the
tsar to the soldiers and died either during the landing in Adler or
shortly thereafter. The body was not found, the place of the monument is
conditional. The monument was erected in 1957, although the first bust
was erected back in tsarist times, in 1913. An old cannon is installed
nearby - another reminder of the Fort of the Holy Spirit.
6 The
building of the port point Adler, st. Enlightenment, 1-3 (embankment).
One of the few pre-revolutionary buildings in the area, now turned into
a restaurant. The style is very typical for old Sochi: gray stone,
different-sized windows and mostly geometric shapes that form into a
cute, almost fairy-tale house.
7 The building of the children's
music school, st. Kirova, 26. Another pre-revolutionary building, and
perhaps the only one that can be unmistakably classified as historical.
A typical two-story mansion, complemented by semicircular door niches in
the spirit of Art Nouveau architecture. Attached to the side is the
Oktyabr cinema (according to various sources, 1928 or 1936) - a
one-story and rather atypical building for such institutions.
8 Olympic rings (junction between Lenina and Aviatsionnaya streets).
Huge rings, where each continent is represented by its own color. At
night it is beautifully lit.
The Blue Dali microdistrict is separated from the center of Adler by
the Herota River. The name of the microdistrict is usually associated
with a good view of the sea from the local hills. There is also a
version about the rich (once) thickets of mimosa, the leaves of which
have a blue tint. The microdistrict is characterized by boring late
Soviet and post-Soviet buildings. Tourists come here either for
entertainment (in the Kurortny Gorodok) or for panoramic views that
cannot be found in other parts of Adler. You may also be interested in
the name of the local river. The most cultural version says that it came
from the tenth company stationed here (X company), although evil tongues
offer other options and consider this name the best characteristic of
Adler as a whole.
9 Observation deck, st. Blue Dali (stop
"Emerald"). The best views are from the rooftops. If you didn’t happen
to get to the roof, just go up one of the streets: Golubye Dali street,
for example, intersecting with Lenin street 700 m west of the railway
station, is great.
The Imeretinskaya lowland, which is between the Mzymta and Psou
rivers in the southeastern part of Adler, has always been a marshy
swampy area where migratory birds nested. At one time, the issue of
creating a reserve here was discussed. At the beginning of the 20th
century, the Old Believers who returned from Turkey settled on the
southern outskirts of Adler, who began to engage in agriculture. This
initiative was successfully developed in the Soviet years, when the
entire coast to the Abkhazian border was occupied by state farms and
numerous drainage channels appeared to regulate the flow of water. In
the early 2000s, the Imereti Lowland was chosen for the construction of
the Olympic Village and the Coastal Cluster of the 2014 Winter Olympics,
which led to radical changes: only the Southern Cultures park survived,
state farms were destroyed, canals were filled in, the ground level was
artificially raised, and at the mouth Mzymty even built a cargo port to
service the construction. Now it is a separate village of Sirius - the
first federal territory in Russia. It has already lost, unfortunately,
its unique nature and former charm. In the bright future, something
between a university campus and a high-tech center will appear here, but
it is still difficult to predict what it will look like and how
interesting it will be for the traveler.
10 Park "Southern
Cultures", st. Krasnaya Gorka / st. Tulips. ☎ +7 (8622) 40-01-73, +7
(8622) 40-02-57. 9:00–17:00. 250 rub. The park was founded in 1910-11.
on the estate of General D. V. Drachevsky, who, like many Sochi summer
residents, wanted his house to be surrounded by subtropical plants. The
well-known park designer of that time A. E. Regel was engaged in the
design, but he did not even come to Adler, entrusting the creation of
the park to the local gardener R. F. Skrivanik. The owner of the estate
also, apparently, did not follow the process very much, as a result of
which the dacha building (now destroyed) ended up on the edge of the
park, and ponds, alleys and stairs formed an independent ensemble, not
at all similar to a noble estate. This is one of the differences between
"Southern Cultures" and the Sochi arboretum, where the owner's dacha is
located in the very center. Another difference is the location on a flat
terrain, thanks to which you can generally arrange a pond here and do
not have to climb uphill all the time, as is usually the case in the
botanical gardens of the Black Sea coast.
After the revolution, the
park was nationalized and turned into a state farm; in the late 1930s,
Far Eastern plants received from China and Japan as payment for the
Chinese Eastern Railway were planted here, including sakura, which now
delight Sochi residents with their spring flowering. After the collapse
of the USSR, the park was in a deplorable state, but it seems that it
began to revive on the eve of the Olympics. About 1,400 species of
various trees and shrubs grow here, almost the entire flora of the
subtropics is represented. Rosary, a large collection of conifers
(sequoias, cryptomerias, cypresses, Lebanese and Himalayan cedars),
rhododendrons, liquidambra, tulip tree, Japanese cherry, magnolias,
laurels. Going down the stairs and walking along the shady alleys, you
can see a large bamboo grove, a tea house, two ponds with rare aquatic
plants (water lilies, lilies, lotuses). Also on the territory of the
park you will find a water tower built in 1910 that looks like an old
transformer box - a rare monument for Adler from the beginning of the
20th century.
The entrance to the park is at the end of the street.
Red hill. You can get here by buses heading towards the Olympic Park, or
you can come on foot by crossing the Mzymta River along the pedestrian
bridge at the end of the Adler embankment.
The Olympic Park
begins with the Olympic Village, which is closely adjacent to the
Southern Cultures Park. These are several blocks of modern houses that
are pretty, but architecturally trivial. Next comes the Olympic Center
itself - a circle with a diameter of 1.2 km, inside which arenas for
competitions are located: a direct road leads here from the railway
station "Olympic Park". Even further east are hotels, the village of
Nekrasovka built for the Olympics - rows of neat new houses where
residents of the Imeretinskaya lowland were resettled, and the Rossiya
state farm - in the past one of the state farms, then a resort village,
and now it’s not clear what, because from the once stretched there is
little left for kilometers of wild beach. The Imeretinskaya lowland ends
with the state border and the village of Vesyoloye, where the border
crossing to Abkhazia is located.
All facilities of the Olympic
Park are made in high-tech style and generously covered with glass or
white plastic or both at the same time. If you like this kind of
architecture, take a look at the Fisht central stadium, which was
planned to be made open, but then they closed up a hole in the roof, so
that from above it now resembles a computer mouse, although, according
to the creators, it was supposed to symbolize the snowy peaks of the
Caucasus. Equally mixed feelings are caused by an ice palace resembling
a CD player with an extremely original name “Bolshoi” (according to the
original plan, a frozen drop). A more unambiguous perception of the
Adler-Arena skating stadium is a uniform aircraft carrier, and the
iceberg winter sports palace completes the composition - a solid
high-tech in the shape of a square with depressed sides. For fun, you
can also visit the Ice Cube, the only curling stadium in the world, and
try to find at least something related to the cube in its shape.
In the center of all this splendor there is a large area intended for
the Olympic flame and official ceremonies, and a little aside from it
there is a patch of greenery, an Old Believer cemetery preserved in the
park. If the future of the Olympic venues is uncertain, then the
cemetery that survived the Olympics will probably remain here forever.
Nizhneimetinskaya Bay (formerly the Rossiya state farm) is a modest
resort village on the shores of the bay of the same name. Imeretians are
called one of the nationalities living in Georgia, and this word itself,
translated from Georgian, means “that side”. There are buses and
minibuses from Adler to the village. If you are driving to the village
of Vesyoloye, then, before reaching the border crossing on the Psou
River, turn right at the Cossack Market to Tavricheskaya Street and
after a couple of kilometers you will find yourself in
Nizhneimeretinskaya Bay. A wide pebble beach provides all the
possibilities of a seaside holiday. The undoubted advantages of this
place are less crowded beaches, cleaner sea water and lower cost of
living compared to Adler.
1 Museum of the History of the Adler District, st. Tavricheskaya, 9
(settlement Vesyoloye). ☎ +7 (8622) 40-54-28. Tue–Sun 10:00–18:00.
Museum of local lore: larger than in Khost, but smaller than in Sochi.
The most interesting in it is the ethnographic part, which tells about
what different peoples went to Adler at the end of the 19th century.
2 Park of culture and rest, st. Chamomile, 1 (center). ☎ +7 (8622)
40-41-65. June-August 10:00–23:00, September-May 10:00–18:00. 10
attractions and a dance floor. The rides are closed during the
off-season.
3 Ferris wheel "Five Stars", Primorsky Park, on the
embankment. one ride: 250 rubles, 1 hour of skiing: 350 rubles, VIP
cabin with champagne: 1500 rubles for two. A new Ferris wheel with
glassed-in cockpits. According to the owners, the third tallest in
Russia, making a full turn in 15 minutes. It can actually be seen from
anywhere in Adler. There are about a dozen attractions nearby, but they
are already aimed at the smallest visitors.
4 Children's
entertainment complex "Madagascar", st. Kuibyshev, 35 (center). ☎ +7
(8622) 40-80-08. Mon 12:00–22:00, Tue–Sun 10:00–22:00. All kinds of
children's attractions, swings, carousels. Children's cafeteria.
Entrance to the park is free, opening hours: 8:00–22:30, but almost
all the buildings can only be viewed from the outside. Only
pre-scheduled events are allowed inside: for example, the Bolshoi Ice
Palace hosts home matches of the Sochi hockey club. The Iceberg Winter
Sports Palace and the Shayba Ice Arena host rare musical and theatrical
performances. On the territory of the park you can ride golf carts and
sightseeing steam locomotives, there is a rental of velomobiles,
electric bicycles, electric tricycles, bicycles, children's electric
cars, segways, roller skates.
Circuit "Formula 1" , Triumphalnyi
proezd, 1 (Olympic Park). ☎ +7 (862) 241-90-50. The track runs through
the entire Olympic Park and is used for Formula 1 Grand Prix
competitions. The rest of the time, excursions are organized at the
autodrome: Sat and Sun, 500 rubles (Wed-Fri - for groups of more than 20
people). You can also drive around the track with a professional racer
(from 3,000 rubles per lap) or try yourself as a pilot: a master class
costs from 6,000 rubles to infinity, depending on which car you want to
drive and how many laps to drive.
5 Sochi Park Theme Park, 21
Olimpiyskiy Prospekt (Imeretinskaya Lowland, next to the Olympic Park).
✉ ☎ 8 (800) 100-33-39. 11:00–19:00. Adult / child ticket: 1500/1200
rubles, 5% discount when buying online; family ticket: 4000 rubles.
Amusement park with rides: carousels, rollercoasters. Such a Russian
version of Disneyland, though on a smaller scale. Show programs
according to the schedule depending on the season. There is also a
dolphinarium and the Experimentanium museum with interactive exhibits
that offer to explore, pull, and solve puzzles in every possible way.
The park is famous for its three rides: Fire Bird, Quantum Leap, which
challenges gravity, and the Serpent Gorynych roller coaster.
6 Adler Sochi Discovery World Aquarium Wikidata Element, st. Lenina,
219a/4 (Resort town). ✉ ☎ +7 (8622) 46-33-56, +7 (8622) 46-35-85.
Wed-Sun 10:00–18:00. Adult ticket: 1100 rubles, children's ticket (4-11
years old): 600 rubles, children under 4 years old free of charge,
preferential: 500 rubles. The largest oceanarium in Russia. On the
territory of 6000 square meters there are 30 aquariums with a total
volume of 5 million liters of water. They are home to about 4 thousand
fish, more than 200 marine and freshwater species. Several interesting
solutions that you will not find in every aquarium, even a large and
foreign one - an acrylic tunnel that creates the effect of presence, a
tropical forest with about the same effect, as well as feeding carp and
fur seals, which does not create any effect, but invariably delights
children.
7 Dolphinarium "Water area", st. Lenina, 219/2 (Resort
town). ☎ +7 (8622) 46-33-03. From 800 rub. 50-minute dolphin shows take
place all year round. The pool is 20 meters wide and 6 meters deep.
Bottlenose dolphins, beluga whales and sea lions participate. Several
performances a day, not every day in winter: check the schedule.
8 Waterpark "Amphibius", st. Lenina, 219a (Resort town, building
"Spring"). ☎ +7 (8622) 46-33-55. July-August 10:00–22:30, June and
September 10:00–18:00. Adult ticket: 800-1200 rubles. The water park is
located next to the dolphinarium. There are 15 attractions, a
restaurant, a bar, a pizzeria, a children's cafe.
9 Terrarium, st.
Enlightenment, 219 D (Resort town). ☎ +7 (862) 264-76-67. 9:00–23:00,
animal feeding at 19:00. 200 rub. Birds, lizards, snakes, turtles and
toads. Nothing out of the ordinary, not worth a special trip.
1 Shopping center "New Age", st. Democratic, 52 (center).
10:00–22:00. Medium sized mall.
2 "Plaza City" shopping center, st.
Kirov, 58 (center). ☎ +7 (8622) 96-88-17. 10:00–22:00. New mall with
food court and multiplex cinema.
3 Market, st. Democratic (south of
the Novy Vek shopping center and the bus station). Very chaotic and
colorful.
4 SEC "Mandarin", st. Bestuzheva, 1 (near the mouth of the
Mzymta River). ☎ +7 (8622) 35-55-66. A large shopping and entertainment
center with a variety of shops, restaurants and cafes, its own concert
venue and even a swimming pool.
The basis of Adler public catering is not even souvlak, but ordinary
canteens with distribution and a typical set of dishes. The prices are
low.
Cheap
1 Dining room "Valentina", st. Kuibysheva, 51.
7:00–21:00. Inexpensive dining room with a huge menu: only 10 kinds of
soups. Good quality.
2 Cafe-dining room "Bagration", st. Karl Marx,
2a. Good feedback.
3 Cafe Zvezdnoe, st. Enlightenment, 27 (center).
9:00–23:00. One of the many eateries on the city beach. Inexpensive
food, grill.
4 Suvlachnaya AINOƩ (Enos), st. Kuibyshev, 27 (center).
☎ +7 (918) 402-61-54. Shawarma, souvlaki and a simple assortment of
Greek dishes. Visitors praise.
5 Dining room "Smile", st. Kirova,
35. Hot dishes: 150-200 rubles. Canteen with delicious food near the
center of Adler.
6 Tasty and point, st. Bestuzheva, 1 (embankment,
shopping center "Mandarin"). around the clock. Sea view is not the most
common attribute. WiFi.
7 Dining room "Patisson", Democratic street,
27A. ☎ +7 988 233-93-37. 6:30-22:00. Dining room with a large work
schedule. A very large selection of first and second courses, as well as
sweets
Average cost
8 Cafe "Meeting", st. Kirova, 35.
10:00–1:00. Modern European cuisine. Good feedback.
9 "Mayak" cafe,
st. Enlightenment, 35A (next to the lighthouse). ☎ +7 (8622) 44-41-86.
10:00–24:00. Cozy cafe with service on the city embankment. Reviews
about food are somewhat contradictory, but all visitors unanimously
praise the fried red mullet. Live music in the evenings.
10 Suvlachnaya "Santorini", st. Lenina, 19a. ☎ +7 (918) 306-33-77.
10:00–1:00. This souvlachka proudly calls itself a Greek and Italian
restaurant. In fact, there is no Greek cuisine here (except for the
ubiquitous souvlaki, of course), but there is a basic set of Italian in
the form of pizza, salads and pastas. Good feedback.
11 Pizzeria
Capri (Capri), st. Lenina, 219 (between the boarding houses "Spring" and
"Coral"). ☎ +7 (918) 610-77-77. Cafe in the resort town with excellent
pizza and Italian cuisine.
Expensive
12 Beer restaurant Frau
Marta, st. Enlightenment, 7. 11:00–23:00. Restaurant with German
cuisine, excellent business lunches. Recently, pathetic and rude service
has been noted.
13 Teremok "Once upon a time", st. Democratic, 50/7
(center). ☎ +7 (918) 901-49-69. Cafe: 9:00-23:00, Restaurant:
11:00-2:00. Hot dishes: from 400 rubles. Restaurant in Russian folk
style, offering dishes of Caucasian cuisine. Russian cuisine is not
disdained here either, although both the atmosphere and the price level
are more reminiscent of some town in Central Russia favored by tourists.
14 Restaurant La Luna, st. Tavricheskaya, 1 (Imeretinskaya lowland,
state farm "Russia"). ✉ ☎ +7 (928) 459-22-29. Dinner 1500 rubles
(without alcohol). Caucasian, European and Russian cuisine, many meat
dishes and seafood (please note that the price for them is indicated on
the menu for 100 grams).
1 Rock bar "Triangle", st. Kirov, 56 (next to the market). around
the clock. Democratic rock and roll club with its own concert venue.
Every weekend there are concerts of local and sometimes not so local
bands. According to visitors, the cuisine is so-so, although the prices
for food are quite humane.
2 Irish pub O'Sullivan's, st. 65 years of
Victory, 69 (Imeretinskaya lowland, opposite the Radisson Blu Paradise
hotel). ☎ +7 (928) 667-73-77. 12:00–23:00. 420 rubles for a pint of
Guinness or Kilkenny, hot: from 500 rubles. One of the few such
establishments in the Imeretinskaya lowland, and throughout Adler. Beer.
WiFi. Parking. Live music on Fridays.
Hotel prices in Adler have the same seasonal character as on the
entire coast. In winter and summer, they differ almost twice, but the
summer markup is uneven, so that hotels can easily move from one price
category to another for no apparent reason. Here are the prices in the
off-season. In summer, ordinary hotels will cost more, but you can stay
in the private sector: Adler is literally hung with advertisements for
renting housing and lined with people who want to rent this housing.
There are hotels in all parts of the city: the center, the
Imeretinskaya lowland, as well as in the Kurortny Gorodok - the Adler
area between Herota and Kudepsta, where there are sanatoriums, boarding
houses, a dolphinarium and a water park, as well as other typical resort
entertainment. In addition to these obvious advantages, there are also
disadvantages in Kurortny Gorodok: the beach strip is narrower than in
the center of Adler, and the cost of living is higher. The hotels of the
Imereti lowland were built for the Olympics. Many of them are high-end
business hotels, but there are also relatively inexpensive options.
When choosing accommodation in the central part of Adler, remember
that it is located directly under the glide slope of the airport.
Airplanes land and take off around the clock, and in the most
inconvenient case, they will also shine their headlights out the window.
If you want to sleep in silence, you will have to close the windows.
Cheap
1 Hotel "Olga", st. Chkalova, 33 (Resort Town). ☎ +7 (918)
900-93-92, +7 (918) 303-04-46. Double room: from 1000 rubles. Mini
Hotel. Three-story house near the coast. Good feedback.
2 Guest house
"On Ulyanova", st. Ulyanova, 10 (center). ☎ +7 (918) 309-05-70, +7
(8622) 40-23-30. Double room: from 1000 rubles. In the center of Adler,
consists of three buildings. Numbers of different categories.
Average cost
3 Hotel "Comfort", st. Enlightenment, 113A (Resort
town). ☎ +7 (988) 238-92-86, +7 (988) 237-68-25. Double room: from 1500
rubles. Year-round private hotel. Rooms of the categories "standard",
"luxury" and "studio" are offered for accommodation. All rooms with
private facilities. On the territory there is a large heated pool that
works even in winter, as well as a dining room.
4 Hotel Almira 3*,
st. Bestuzheva, 8 (center). ☎ +7 (8622) 69-35-15. Double room: from 2250
rubles. A good hotel in a great location. Own equipped beach 200 m from
the hotel. 7-storey building, some rooms have a view of the Armenian
Church. Restaurant, bar, swimming pool, billiard room, sauna and bath.
Not far from the hotel is the Mandarin shopping and entertainment center
and the Mzymta embankment.
5 Hotel Beryozka, st. Stanislavsky, 38
(Imeretinskaya lowland). ✉ ☎ +7 (988) 134-98-65. Double junior suite:
2200 rubles. A new hotel on the left bank of the Mzymta in close
proximity to the Olympic venues. Cafe-dining room, parking, transfer,
Wi-Fi. Junior suites and suites.
6 Hotel Azimut 3*, Kontinentalny
Ave. 6 (Imeretinskaya Lowland). ☎ +7 (8622) 43-38-17, +7 (8622)
43-38-32. Double room: from 2100 rubles (upon reservation). A dozen
eight-story buildings in a huge fenced area, where there are five small
pools, playgrounds, a pond with ducks, low decorative palm trees. To the
sea from the hotel on foot 20 minutes; to the railway station "Olympic
Park" 10 minutes. You can pay for breakfasts, lunches and dinners at a
local canteen (the food is normal), you can eat at cafes and restaurants
located on the territory - however, they do not always work. There is no
entertainment. The standard rooms are cramped, the audibility between
the rooms is excellent. Wi-Fi is declared throughout the territory, but
is practically not caught anywhere; there is a computer for common use
in the lobby.
7 Apart-hotels "Velvet seasons", Olimpiyskiy pr. 1
(Imeretinskaya lowland). ✉ ☎ +7 (8622) 45-49-55, 8 (800) 55-040-55.
Standard without food: from 2100 rubles; from 4100 rubles for "all
inclusive". A whole city-hotel of typical low-rise buildings is located
between the Olympic Park and Abkhazia. It consists of the quarters
"Ekaterininsky Quarter", "Chistye Prudy", "Alexander Garden". There is a
common infrastructure: a fitness center, playgrounds, sports grounds;
rental of bicycles, segways. Parking. WiFi. You can rent an apartment
with a kitchen or eat in a restaurant. You can rent daily, you can
arrange a long-term rental (for example, for the whole summer).
8 Villa Bossa, st. Kyiv, 35 (Resort Town). Double room: from 2000
rubles, without breakfast. Mini-hotel, 10 rooms, ten minutes to the sea
(you cannot go directly). The reviews are mostly good, but they also
note that the rooms are rarely cleaned or not cleaned at all.
Expensive
9 Tulip Inn Omega Sochi, Olimpiyskiy pr. 3 (Imeretinskaya
lowland). ✉ ☎ +7 (8622) 62-72-72, +7 (8622) 43-38-91. Standard: from
4200 rubles. 4* chain hotel near the Olympic Park. Wi-Fi, gym,
restaurant, lobby bar, secure parking. 15 minutes walk to the sea, no
swimming pool. The hotel is more for business travellers.
10 Weiler
Hotel, st. Lenina 282/1 (Kurortny Gorodok). From 3800 rubles for a
double room. 29 rooms, good reviews, although sometimes they complain
about problems with Wi-Fi.
11 Radisson Blu Paradise Resort & Spa
Sochi Hotel 5*, st. 65 years of Victory, 50 (Imeretinskaya lowland).
Double room: from 6000 rubles. One of two Radisson's in the area. First
line by the sea.
12 Radisson Blu Resort & Congress Center Hotel 5*,
st. Blue, 1a (Imeretinskaya lowland). ☎ +7 (8622) 96-81-00. From 6000
rub. Another Radisson in the area. The first line is by the sea, but
there is no beach nearby.
13 Bogatyr Hotel 4*, Olympiyskiy prospect,
21 (Imeretinskaya lowland). From 4500 rubles for a double room. The
hotel is built in the form of a fairy-tale castle and decorated
accordingly. The second line from the sea, but right in the
entertainment "Sochi-Park".
14 Bridge Resort Hotel 4*, st. Figurnaya,
45 (Imeretinskaya lowland). ☎ +7 (938) 440-01-00, +7 (8622) 95-80-00, +7
(928) 450-04-06. Double room: from 5000 rubles. 5 minutes to the sea,
equipped beach.
Sanatoriums and boarding houses
15 Boarding
house "Burgas", st. Lenina, 233 (on the border with the Khostinsky
district, near the Kudepstinsky viaduct). ✉ ☎ +7 (8622) 90-28-00, +7
(8622) 90-27-00, +7 (8622) 90-21-51. From 2000 rubles / person with
meals (2014). 385 rooms: one-room single and double rooms of the 1st
category, studios, suites and VIP suites of the highest category. Free
WiFi.
16 Boarding house "Fregat", st. Lenina, 219. ☎ +7 (8622)
46-34-55, +7 (8622) 46-34-57. 15-storey complex on the seafront, located
in the resort town.
17 Sanatorium "USSR" (formerly Aeroflot), st.
Lenin, 217-a. ☎ +7 (8622) 46-05-17, +7 (8622) 46-29-81. From 2000
rub/person
18 Sanatorium "Southern Vzmorye" (sanatorium of nuclear
scientists), st. Kalinina, 1. ☎ +7 (8622) 69-15-40, fax: +7 (8622)
40-09-73, +7 (8622) 40-02-68. From 3100 rub/person Sanatorium "Yuzhnoye
Vzmorye" was opened in 1964, it was used, in particular, for post-flight
rehabilitation of cosmonauts. Since 2000, it has the status of an
Endocrinological Center and an Endocrinological Rehabilitation Center.
Own park, almost like in an arboretum, spacious beach, tennis court and
so on.
By plane
Sochi Airport (IATA:AER). A couple of kilometers east of
the city. Airplanes land and take off right above the houses. The
airport consists of a single terminal built for the Olympics. The inside
is very nice, spacious and modern. Free WiFi.
The train runs from the
airport 8 times a day with an hourly interval in the middle of the day
and practically does not run either in the morning or in the evening.
All trains go to the Adler station (9 minutes), after which they
continue moving towards Sochi or Krasnaya Polyana. Travel to Adler: 70
rubles.
Buses: buses / minibuses 105 will deliver you to the
Adler railway station, which then go to Sochi, and all buses that have
the Novy Vek / Rynok bus station as the final bus station (135, 173,
etc.) go directly to the center of Adler. e.) If you wish, you can walk
to the center of kilometer 4. In the direction from Adler, buses 105 and
135 follow to Krasnaya Polyana. Movement interval: 15-30 min. Tickets
are twice cheaper than on the train.
A taxi to Adler will cost
less than to any other area of Sochi, but it is still recommended to
book a car in advance so as not to bargain with taxi drivers who call
exorbitant prices.
By train
The Adler station is the terminus
for all long-distance trains arriving in Sochi, with the exception of
the Moscow-Sukhumi train.
Commuter trains reach Sochi (with stops
in Khosta and Matsesta, about half an hour), Krasnaya Polyana (that is,
the Rosa-Khutor complex, with an intermediate stop at the Esto-Sadok
station - in Krasnaya Polyana itself, 50 minutes) and the Olympic Park
station, which is three kilometers from the Abkhazian border. Some
electric trains go further west, to Dagomys, Lazarevskoye or even
Tuapse. On the Adler-Sochi section, the average traffic interval is 1-2
hours, in other directions - several trains a day.
Railway
station (Station Adler) , st. Lenina, 113. ☎ +7 (8622) 45-06-06. It is
located a little away from the center, to which one and a half
kilometers: you can drive three stops on any bus except those that go to
the airport.
The new station building was built for the 2014 Olympics
and can be considered one of the most successful examples of modern
Sochi architecture. Inside, the four-story station looks like a shopping
center: in the center there is an atrium with escalators, along the
perimeter there are fashionable shops. One of the exits goes down to the
sea, and from the height of the third floor there is an excellent view
of the entire nearest coast. On the fourth floor there is a food court:
several fast food establishments (including Subway) and a cheap
home-cooked cafe with a meager assortment. The old building of the
station - an ordinary stalin - was restored and preserved for history:
there is a waiting room for superior comfort (200 rubles per hour, 2016)
and the Stariy Vokzal canteen (tasty, but prices are higher than in the
average Adler canteen).
Olimpic village. An intermediate stop in the
northern part of the Olympic village, not far from residential buildings
built for the participants in the Olympics. All trains going to the
Olympic Park stop.
Imereti resort (formerly the Olympic Park).
Wikidata item Terminus of electric trains from Sochi. Not just a
station, but a huge station, built in approximately the same style as
the Adler one. Solar panels are installed on the roof of the building.
By bus
Intercity buses end their route at the Sochi bus station:
with rare exceptions, they do not go to Adler. There are passing buses
in Sukhumi, but where they stop in Adler and whether they stop at all is
not known for certain (most likely they stop only at the airport). All
other communications are suburban or, given the status of Greater Sochi,
intracity: these are routes with three-digit numbers. From Sochi it is
most convenient to go by bus / minibus 124, coming to the center of
Adler. Another popular route, 105, will only take you to the train
station. If you are traveling from Abkhazia, just cross the border at
Psou and take any minibus: it will definitely take you to Adler.
Bus station "New Age" (Adler market, Trud), st. Democratic. This stop is
sometimes called the Adler bus station, but there is no bus station
here: it's just a stop at the Novy Vek shopping center. Moreover,
throughout the entire territory of Greater Sochi, the word "bus station"
means only and exclusively the Sochi bus station, located in the Central
District. Bus 135 departs from the Adler bus station to Krasnaya Polyana
and a number of other routes with the final in Adler.
Station station
complex. There are bus stops on both sides of the railway station. From
the sea side, you may need minibus No. 100, going to the Olympic Park
and further to the Abkhazian border, and No. 135 to the airport and
Krasnaya Polyana. From the side of the city, most routes to the city
center stop, as well as No. 105 to Krasnaya Polyana; from here you can
also go to the mountains in a private minibus.
The most complete information on the history of Adler
can be obtained in the Museum of the History of the Adler region.
The Russian fortification of the Holy Spirit was founded on June 18,
1837 on a vast plain at the mouth of the Mzymta River. The
fortification as part of the Black Sea coastline lasted until 1854.
In the vicinity of the fortification, there was the Abkhazian
settlement of Liesh, known in the Middle Ages as the Genoese trading
post Layso. Before joining the Russian Empire, these lands were
under the control of the Abkhazian Sadzian princely clan Arydba. The
princes at the mouth of the river had a pier through which they
traded with Turkey. In Turkish this area was called Artlar ("Arts").
This name was assigned to the settlement in a Germanized form
(German der Adler - eagle). According to another, folk-etymological
version, the name of the settlement was given in honor of the brig
"Adler".
In 1910, the Drachevsky Park (now the Southern
Cultures Park) was laid out in Adler. In 1927, the suburban
settlement Adler was formed, which seven years later was transformed
into a working settlement.
On June 20, 1934, the Presidium of
the All-Russian Central Executive Committee decided: “In connection
with the allocation of mountains. To transfer Sochi to an
independent administrative and economic unit, the center of the
Sochi region, to the village of Adler, keeping the former name of
the region. "
In 1961, the coastal settlements of the
Lazarevsky and Adler rural areas of the Krasnodar Territory were
liquidated and, together with Lazarevsky, was included in the urban
boundaries of the city of Sochi.
Adler is located in the humid subtropical zone (Cfa according to the Köppen climate classification). The climate of Adler is significantly influenced by the sea (in summer it is cooler, in winter it warms) and mountains (shielded from cold northern winds). The climate is very humid, especially along the coast, and, similar to the Sochi one, is observed in neighboring Abkhazia, as well as in the southeastern United States (Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia). The maximum precipitation occurs during the winter period of the year, mainly in the form of rain, less often - snow. Winters are warm, summers are hot and humid. Due to the proximity of the sea, high summer temperatures are somewhat adjusted downward and are favorable for nature and humans. This type of climate is suitable for growing all kinds of subtropical and temperate crops. Since Adler is located on the northern border of the subtropics, frosts and snowfalls are occasionally possible here in winter, but on the coast they are extremely rare and last for one to five days, in some years they are absent altogether. Adler has long summers (mid-April-October), mild autumn (November-January), short winters (February-mid-March) and short spring (mid-March-mid-April). In Adler, the daily temperature drops are higher than in the Sochi Center, when during periods of cold air masses breaking through the Caucasus, the temperature in Adler remains 2-3 ° C higher.
On January 16, 2012, it became known about the complete closure of
the Adler solid waste landfill (MSW), which, over the 50 years of its
existence, has become obsolete, spoiled the appearance of the resort and
worsened the environmental situation.
On the eve of the Sochi
2014 Olympic Games, 6.7 thousand trees and shrubs were planted on the
territory of the Imeretinskaya lowland, and an ornithological park was
opened, which has several clusters throughout the entire lowland.
In the summer of 2012, the complex of Adler treatment facilities was
put into operation.
The Adler inner-city district of Sochi, 17 km long along the Black Sea coast, has many different attractions. Adler sanatoriums offer treatment with Adler silt mud and Matsesta water enriched with hydrogen sulfide. The resort has a large number of accommodation facilities, ranging from hostels to large chain hotels.
The largest number of sanatoriums and boarding houses are located
here - Izumrud, Izvestia, the health resorts of the Adler Resort, USSR,
Green Hill, Orbit, Vesna, Yuzhny and Znanie. This part of the resort has
the largest number of private hotels, bars and cafes, as well as food
and souvenir shops; the beach is within walking distance.
The
main attractions of the resort town are: the largest oceanarium in the
south of Russia “Sochi Discovery World Aquarium”, the famous Adler
Dolphinarium, the Amphibius water park, as well as the Adler pump room
with medicinal mineral water.
In this part of the area there are many private hotels, inns and large health centers, such as the South Vzmorye sanatorium, the Adler military sanatorium, and large shopping and entertainment complexes are also concentrated here. The main attraction is the city embankment.
The Orthodox churches of the Holy Trinity and the Holy Spirit are located in Adler. The Armenian Cathedral of St. Sarkis is active. In 2014, the Orthodox Church of the Image of Christ the Savior Not Made by Hands was consecrated, and since 2020 it has been located on the territory of the town of Sirius.
Adler is the birthplace of Michael, a character in the TV series “Univer”.