Editing Sochi (section)

==== Circassian genocide ====
{{Main|Circassian genocide}}
By the end of [[Russo-Circassian War]], the Russian Empire aimed to systematically destroy the native Circassian people in the region<ref name="Ahmed16132">{{harvnb|Ahmed|2013|p=161}}.</ref><ref name="Burykina2">L.V.Burykina. ''Pereselenskoye dvizhenie na severo-zapagni Kavakaz''. Reference in King.</ref><ref name="Richmond2008792">{{harvnb|Richmond|2008|p=79}}.</ref> and several atrocities were committed by the Russian forces.<ref name=":02">{{Cite book |last=Richmond |first=Walter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LHlwZwpA70cC |title=The Circassian Genocide |date=9 April 2013 |publisher=Rutgers University Press |isbn=978-0-8135-6069-4}}</ref><ref name="Shenfield">Shenfield, Stephen D. ''The Circassians: A Forgotten Genocide?'', 1999</ref> As a result, almost all [[Ubykh people|Ubykhs]] and a major part of the [[Circassians]] who lived on the territory of modern Sochi, were either killed or expelled to the [[Ottoman Empire]] in the [[Circassian genocide]]. According to Russian sources, Sochi's population fell from roughly 100,000, to 98.<ref name="ReferenceA">Половинкина Т. В. Сочинское Причерноморье – Нальчик (2006) pp. 216–218, {{ISBN|588195775X}}</ref><ref name="4. Население">{{Cite book |title=4. Население |url=http://www.gks.ru/free_doc/doc_2011/year/year2011.rar |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20230317215524/http://www.gks.ru/free_doc/doc_2011/year/year2011.rar |archive-date=2023-03-17 |access-date=2025-05-18 |website=www.gks.ru |date=2011 |publisher=Статистика России |isbn=978-5-89476-319-4}}</ref><ref name="GSE">{{Cite web |title=Сочи |url=https://bse.sci-lib.com/article104967.html |access-date=2025-05-18 |website=bse.sci-lib.com}}</ref>

Starting in 1866 the coast was actively colonized by Russians, Armenians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Greeks, Germans, Georgians and other people from inner Russia.<ref name="Mus" /><ref name="Mus2" /> Additionally in the late 1860s, the Adyghe, mostly of the [[Shapsugs|Shapsug]] and Khakuchi tribes, who were hiding in the mountains started resettling on the coast.<ref name="Mus" />

In 1874–1891, the first [[Russian Orthodox Church|Russian Orthodox church]], [[Saint Michael's Church, Sochi|St. Michael's Church]], was constructed, and the Dakhovsky settlement was renamed ''Dakhovsky'' [[Posad]] on April 13, 1874 ([[Old Style|O.S.]]). In February 1890, the Sochi Lighthouse was constructed. In 1896, the Dakhovsky [[Posad]] was renamed ''Sochi'' [[Posad]] (after the name of local river) and incorporated into the newly formed [[Black Sea Governorate]]. In 1900–1910, Sochi burgeoned into a sea resort. The first resort, "Kavkazskaya Riviera", opened on June 14, 1909 ([[Old Style|O.S.]]). Sochi was granted town status in 1917.<ref name="Mus" />

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File:Sochi-1838.jpg|Plan of Fort Alexandria at the mouth of Sochi, which initiated the city of Sochi
File:Subashi desant.jpg|The landing of [[Nikolay Raevsky]]'s squadron at Subashi, 1839 by [[Ivan Aivazovsky]]
File:CircassianCoastBattle.JPG|[[Adyghe people|Adyghe]] strike on a Russian Military Fort in 1840 during the [[Russo-Circassian War|Russian-Circassians War]]
File:Sochi-kurort.jpg|The "Kavkazskaya Riviera" resort in Sochi, ca. 1909
File:Sochi (Moscvich) 1913.jpg|Map of Sochi in 1913 (Russian edition)
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