2. Krasnaya Polyana, Sochi, Russia
LOCATION-
• Krasnaya Polyana is located in city of Sochi in Krasnodar krai,
Russia.
•Elevation – 560m to sea level
•Total population- 4598
•Settlement type- urban settlement
CLIMATE-
•The average temperature in winter
months 0 °C to -5 °C. the coldest
month is January, and the snow –
February.
•The average temperature in Krasnaya
Polyana in summer ranges from +24 to
+28 degrees.
3. Krasnaya Polyana, Sochi, Russia
•The valley of the Mzymta river in Krasnaya
Polyana district forms a unique valley surrounded
by high mountains, bounded.
• North and North-East of the Main Caucasian ridge and its
spurs of the Achishkho with peaks exceeding 3000m.
•From the South and South-East the valley is bordered by the
Aibga ridge running parallel to the river valley.
• The village, though hidden from prying eyes a mighty
mountain ranges and stored in its original, a truly extraordinary
view of nature.
• The valley of the river Mzymta near the present Krasnaya Polyana was inhabited by
Midosuji. Adyghe were a people of high culture – they knew the foundry business,
were able to sculpt out of clay and carving stone art images.
•The main occupations were farming, agriculture and hunting. Circassians always had
good riders, so special attention was paid to horse breeding.
•With great love did the highlanders gardening, not only in their backyards, but
wherever it was possible.
4. HISTORY-
• People had settled in the area of Krasnaya Polyana for a very long time. In the mountain caves, archaeologists have found ancient tools made of flint
and slate, bones of the cave bear and the bison, and monumental religious buildings of the bronze age – dolmens – a surprise to everyone who was
a little above the village in the valley of Besengi.
• Therefore, Krasnaya Polyana is not just a piece of nature reserve. It has its own unique history associated with the development of human civilization.
Here, scientists have discovered several primitive people, tools made from rock crystal, obsidian, flint, bone.
• Many people live in these places, one after another. Of great importance were the economic, trade and cultural ties.
• Communication for people separated by inaccessible mountain ranges and gorges, was difficult. Therefore special value acquired caravan route, laid on
convenient routes to bypass natural barriers – impassable thickets, rocks, deep gorges, high snow-capped ridges.
• In ancient times the valley of the river Mzymta took the shortest trade route from the North Caucasus to the coast of the Pontus euxinus (as the Greeks
called the Black sea, in a literal translation – a hospitable sea), which came to merchant ships from the metropolis – first Greece, then Rome Almighty.
• There are more than twenty fortresses built in the VI – IX centuries ad. Alpine meadows preserved azangara ancient cattle trails and in the vicinity of the
village of the mysterious ancestral tomb - stone dolmens.
5. Construction material-
Material used in construction-
• WOODEN was probably the most common material used in Krasnaya
Polyana and Russia.
•For wall , roof covered, column and as a rafter.
•STONE
•RCC
•TILE
ARCHITECTURAL STYLE-
•For some year’s in 19th century , brick architecture almost
became synonymous with Russian style architecture.
•Arches are everywhere in Russian architecture, from windows
and doors upto ceilings.
•Terem roof- the type of roof features a very distinctive, triangle
– like roof top with a very small angle between the two parts of
the roof.
•Decorated facades-
6. Location and facilities-
• Krasnaya Polyana is sited against the scenic backdrop of the Caucasus
Mountains, which exceed in elevation, at a distance of from the center of Sochi by
road and from the Adler-Sochi International Airport.
• The settlement has been plagued by transport problems: in order to improve this
for the 2014 Winter Olympics, a railway line was built, connecting the area with
the airport, Sochi Olympic Village, and central Sochi.
• Krasnaya Polyana today offers many chalets, hotels, and restaurants.
• Its reputation owes a lot to the development of heliskiing in the middle of the
1990s, which provides access to an important skiing domain.
• Amateurs can ski downhill through a not-too-dense birch forest, with a vertical
drop of .
• The station at Rosa Khutor has four chairlifts (lowest station at and upper station
at ) and of delimited tracks. , the Alpika Service was being developed by the
Gazprom.
