Lazarevskoye (russian: Ла́заревское; ady, Псышӏуап ) is a

microdistrict Microdistrict, or microraion (russian: микрорайо́н, ''mikrorajón''), is a residential complex—a primary structural element of the residential area construction in the Soviet Union and in some post-Soviet and former Socialist st ...

of Lazarevsky City District of the

city A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...

Sochi Sochi ( rus, Со́чи, p=ˈsotɕɪ, a=Ru-Сочи.ogg) is the largest resort city in Russia. The city is situated on the Sochi River, along the Black Sea in Southern Russia, with a population of 466,078 residents, up to 600,000 residents in ...

Krasnodar Krai Krasnodar Krai (russian: Краснода́рский край, r=Krasnodarsky kray, p=krəsnɐˈdarskʲɪj kraj) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai), located in the North Caucasus region in Southern Russia and administratively a part of t ...

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. It was a resort settlement before 1961, when it was merged into Sochi.

Geography

The microdistrict is located on the shore of the

Black Sea The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea of the Atlantic Ocean lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bounded by Bulgaria, Georgia, Roma ...

at the mouth of the Psezuapse River.

History

It was founded in 1869 as the village of Lazarevka in place of the former Lazarevskoye Fortress, which existed in 1839–1854.Azarenkova et al., p. 255. The fortress was named after Admiral

Mikhail Lazarev Admiral Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev (russian: Михаил Петрович Лазарев, 3 November 1788 – 11 April 1851) was a Russian Naval fleet, fleet commander and an explorer. Education and early career Lazarev was born in Vladimir, R ...

. Later the name of the village was changed to Lazarevskoye. On July 12, 1949, it was granted resort settlement status. On February 11, 1961, it was merged into the city of Sochi and ceased to exist as an independent entity.

Other

Lazarevskaya railway station Lazarevskaya railway station (russian: Железнодорожная станция Лазаревская) is a railway station of the North Caucasus Railway, subsidiary of Russian Railways, located in Lazarevskoye Microdistrict, Lazarevsky Cit ...

on the

Tuapse Tuapse (russian: Туапсе́; ady, Тӏуапсэ ) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, situated on the northeast shore of the Black Sea, south of Gelendzhik and north of Sochi. Population: Tuapse i ...

- Adler line is located on the territory of the microdistrict. Lazarevskoye is a popular place for beach tourism. There are two

waterpark A water park (or waterpark, water world) is an amusement park that features water play areas such as swimming pools, water slides, splash pads, water playgrounds, and lazy rivers, as well as areas for floating, bathing, swimming, and other baref ...

s and a dolphinarium.

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*{{Cite book , last=Азаренкова , first=А. С. , author2=И. Ю. Бондарь , author3=Н. С. Вертышева , script-title=ru:Основные административно-территориальные преобразования на Кубани (1793–1985 гг.) , origyear=1986 , year=1986 , publisher=Краснодарское книжное издательство , language=Russian Lazarevsky City District Seaside resorts in Russia Populated places established in 1869 1961 disestablishments in the Soviet Union 1869 establishments in the Russian Empire