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5 unusual facts about Sochi


2013 United States Junior Curling Championships

The winners of the championships will represent the United States at the 2013 World Junior Curling Championships in Sochi, Russia.

Abkhazian railway

On 25 December 2002 the Sochi-Sukhumi elektrichka train made its first run since the war, which let to Georgian protests.

Aleksandr Fyodorov

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Fyodorov (born 1965), Russian footballer who played in the Russian Premier League for FC Zhemchuzhina-Sochi

Georg Kuphaldt

Some of the most renowned works of Kuphaldt are the gardens of the Winter Palace and Oranienbaum in Saint Petersburg as well as locations in Nizhny Novgorod, Dagomys in Sochi, Tsarskoye Selo and Catharinenthal Palace in Reval (now Tallinn).

Petr Elfimov

He appeared for two teams, who in different years became KVN's Major League Champions: BGU (Minsk), Champions in 1999 and 2001; and RUDN (Moscow), with whom he did not play in their Championship year (2006), but won the Super Cup with them in 2007 in Sochi.


2013 World Wheelchair Curling Championship

The 2013 World Wheelchair Curling Championship was held from February 16 to 23 at the Sochi Olympic Curling Centre in Sochi, Russia.

Abazinia

Most of them belong to Ashkharua clan that fought against the Tsarist army and emigrated to Turkey after losing the battle of Kbaada (Krasnaya Polyana in today's Sochi), whereas the Tapanta clan fought with the Russian forces.

Alexei Almoukov

As of March 2013, his best Biathlon World Cup finish is 33rd, in the individual competition at Sochi in 2012/13.

Andreas Wellinger

The same year, he already won the large hill team event in Kuusamo and got two individual podiums in Sochi and Engelberg.

Andrei Deputat

At their second event, in Zagreb, Croatia, they took the bronze and qualified for the JGP Final in Sochi, Russia, where they won the silver medal behind Lina Fedorova / Maxim Miroshkin.

Armavia Flight 967

Armavia Flight 967 was a flight operated by Armavia, the largest international airline of Armenia on May 3, 2006, from Yerevan in Armenia to Sochi, a Black Sea coastal resort city in Russia.

Chuvashia

One of them was the semifast Sochi-Sverdlovsk-Sochi long distance transit train, halting only at Alatyr, Buinsk, and Kanash.

Estosadok

The railway station of Krasnaya Polyana connects this area with Adler railway station, with further connections to Sochi International Airport, Sochi Olympic Village and the downtown of Sochi.

Ethnic cleansing of Circassians

The expulsion resulted in the depopulation of vast swaths of the Western Caucasus, specifically the fertile Pontic littoral near Sochi.

German Ugryumov

In September 2000, Ugryumov and Deputy Interior Minister Vladimir Kozlov managed the resolution of a hostage crisis in Lazarevskoye near Sochi.

Global Footsteps

Collaboration with the British Council in Kisumu and Sochi to let internet facilities be made available to young people in the communities who wouldn't otherwise be able to afford access to the latest technology.

Greg Drummond

February 2014 sees Greg make his Team GB Winter Olympic debut at the Sochi 2014 games alongside David Murdoch, Michael Goodfellow, Scott Andrews and Tom Brewster.

Grigori Nelyubov

His image was airbrushed out of the famous "Sochi Six" photo which showed the top members of the original class of Soviet cosmonauts.

Kalinin K-4

On 1 May 1929, seven Ukrvozduhput K-4s flew in formation from Kharkov to Rostov, Sochi, Mineralnye Vody and Tbilisi.

Khostinsky City District

There are two stations within the district, Khosta and Matsesta, both served by suburban trains from Sochi and from Krasnaya Polyana.

Mariya Kozhevnikova

In June 2013 it was announced that Kozhevnikova and Gérard Depardieu would collaborate in a movie for the 2014 Winter Olympics to be held in Sochi.

Martin Marinčin

Marincin was named to the 2014 Slovakian Olympic Team competing in Sochi, Russia.

Principality of Abkhazia

Sadzny, formerly known as Zygia (Jiketi of the Georgian sources) extended north to Abkhazia proper between the modern-day cities of Gagra and Sochi, and was run by the Gechba clan.

San Diego Figure Skating Club

Longtime coach Yuri Ovchinnikov is on a four-year assignment with the Russian Olympic Committee in preparation for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games.

Shahin Novrasli

Shahin Novrasli is participant of such international jazz festivals of last years as Caspian Jazz & Blues Festival (Baku, Azerbaijan), Hot Summer Jazz Festival (Minneapolis, USA), Black Sea Jazz Festival (Sochi, Russia), Antalya International Piano Festival (Turkey), Baku International Jazz Festival and East-West Jazz Festival (France).

Silje Norendal

She will compete in slopestyle during the 2014 Olympics in Sochi.

Sochi railway station

It was renovated for the 2014 Winter Olympics, alongside with Sochi's three other railway stations: Dagomys, Matsesta and Khosta.

Sung Ching-yang

In ice skating Sung participated in the 2013–14 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's 500 metres and 2013–14 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's 1000 metres and is expected to represent Chinese Taipei at the 2014 Winter Olympics in both events in Sochi.


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