Autumn in the Sochi National Park near Krasnaya Polyana

Psekhako Ridge (russian: Хребет Псехако) is a

mountain range A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have arise ...

in the vicinity of the village of

Krasnaya Polyana Krasnaya Polyana (russian: Кра́сная Поля́на) meaning "Red Meadow" is the name of several types of inhabited localities in Russia, inhabited localities in Russia: Modern localities Amur Oblast As of 2012, one rural locality in Amur ...

, in the

Adlersky City District Adlersky City District (russian: А́длерский райо́н) is the southernmost of four city districts of the city of Sochi in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, lying along the Black Sea coast near the southern Russian border with Georgia. The city ...

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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. From the northwest and west it is bordered by the River Laura Basin, from the south-west by the Achipse river, which flows into Laura, and from the south by the River Mzimta Basin, which flows to 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 ...

. Rising gradually from the southwest to the northeast ridge adjacent to its upper part to the ridge Bzerpi, north of which is the massif Pseashkho. In the northern part of the ridge begins the territory of the Caucasian Biosphere Reserve. Absolute marks ridge reach heights of 1400–1600 m ridge covered with deciduous and coniferous forests Caucasian. In the 1960s, logging was carried out on the ridge.Ефремов Ю. К. Тропами горного Черноморья. М: Государственное издательство географической литературы, 1963
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2014 Winter Olympics

At the foot of the mountain ridge located Psekhako tourist center of Gazprom and a large part of the ridge together with the grounds on which it is leased to Gazprom to build ski resort facilities and facilities of the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014. Shelter number 1 or its official name "House for Receptions of Official Delegations" will be part of the official events of the Winter Olympics.

References

{{Reflist Mountain ranges of Russia Mountains of Krasnodar Krai