On January 1 last year, the population of Sochi was almost 400 thousand people.It is worth noting that not a lot for such a large and important cities.But after the Olympic Games, something has changed, and now a number of other indicators.
Soaring
I must say that the population of the South slope of the Greater Caucasus to 1864 was about 300 thousand people.These were mostly Ubykhs and Shapsugs - originally they professed Christianity, but rather strange, since it is clearly felt admixture of spiritualism and shamanism.But then we went to Islam - it happened in the days of the Ottoman Empire.What can you say about the then population of Sochi?The number of surprises - it definitely.After 1900 the first year in modern, to date, the city population of only 33 thousand people!In this hard to believe, as the population of Sochi, whose number currently stands at several hundred thousand inhabitants, is growing rapidly.And then it turns out there are virtually no one and was not.Most of all, of course, lived in Sochi, Russian - more than 61%.Slightly less - Greeks (about 17%).Next came the Circassians (6.2%), followed by - Armenians (4%), Moldovans (3.1%), Imeretia, Czechs, Poles, Turks, Estonians, Georgians, and finally the French - they were in the city only 19human.That was the population of the city of Sochi at the time.Today, everything is different.
Dynamics and population growth in
Sochi, rather its size, was slowly but surely increasing.If the year 1897 the total population of the city amounted to some 1,300 people (today, even in the villages people live longer), then over the years, this situation is corrected.Already in 1939, the figure was 72,600 people, including about 50 thousand inhabitants were urban.For twenty years, people in Sochi has become even more - 127 000. Even then it was clear that the city will become a metropolis.More twenty years the number of residents grew almost 2.5 times and amounted to 287.3 thousand people.Until 1989 Sochi populate a few more tens of thousands, and now, as of today the total number of living in a modern Olympic city (and surrounding areas) is almost half a million.As you can see - the rates are rising, and the population of Sochi, which number constantly increases, and becomes more.
What's on today?
So, even if we compare the figures for the 2013 th and 2014, the first year it is possible to observe considerable gains.The number of people living in Sochi increased by almost thirty thousand (Central District).However, it should be noted, it is still a little for such a big city.After all, we must remember that Sochi is divided into districts, and they can easily find it for individual settlements.Some, for example, still believe that Adler - is a city, not a town.But several of them.So, in the Adler district is home to about 140,000 people in the Central a little more - about 152 000. Lazarev has approximately 93,000 inhabitants of Sochi and in Khosta - 86 000. And the most numerically small settlements, have a direct territorial relation to Sochi, a villageurban Krasnaya Polyana.Although, of course, the number of living here is considerably increased in the winter - it is, after all, a ski resort, and thousands of people come here to enjoy skiing and snowboarding.And, of course, the population of Sochi has grown significantly with the arrival of the holiday season.Local residents have long been used to it.
"Seasonal" gains
population increases in the summer of Sochi, not only because of the vacationers.Although, of course, given how popular this resort among the inhabitants of Russia and the CIS and foreign countries, it is not surprising that in the summer it becomes cities.But tourists - this is not the only "arriving".Every year thousands of people come to Sochi (it is mostly young people) to work.They are mainly employed in the service and food.Many people decide to come to the Olympic to make some money and at the same time have a good time close to the sea.
Mass transfers
Olympics, Formula 1, the sea, favorable climate, and just a great atmosphere - all in Sochi attracts not only tourists.Many want to move to the city for permanent residence, and, I must say, most wanting that dream successfully implemented.Indeed, until the passage of the Olympic Games Sochi wildly popular among Russians and citizens of the countries neighbors.But after this event started coming here just an endless stream of tourists.And many are happy to live.Due to this, the number of living, respectively, increases.In Sochi, live well - the price is not as high as they are described, also here the sea, the mountains, the climate, and in general - in a city I want to stay permanently.Given how Olympic become popular in recent years, we can expect that in the coming years will increase the number of residents is not something that a few tens of thousands, but on the whole hundred.Fortunately all the conditions for a good life in the city there is - it is one more reason why people come here.Sochi - a promising and modern city with a mass of possibilities.And most importantly, to the people living in it, it helped to make it better.
National composition
This topic is always interesting, especially to people who are not familiar with the culture of a city and want to fix it.As has been found, the population of Sochi is quite a large number, and it is logical to assume that the ethnic composition is also rich.Russian is still the most - 70 percent.And, by the way, this figure increases - both due to natural increase, and by the fact that Sochi residents moving from other cities and regions of Russia.The number of Armenians living there is about 20% - also a respectable figure.Perhaps the two most numerous group.The remaining ten per cent of them are ethnic Germans, Belarusians, Greeks, Adygei, Shapsugs, Tatars, Azerbaijanis, Georgians and others.Of all these groups, and formed so numerous and colorful population of Sochi.The number is quite large and I must say, it is good - because in such a wonderful and interesting city simply can not live a few people.
