12 May 2003, 15:05
Lazarevskoye
Resort settlement in Krasnodar territory, on a Black sea coast. The centre of Lazarevskoye area in the city of Sochi, on the river Psezuapse. A railway station. Settled down in 1839 in a mouth of the river Psezuapse as a strengthening by admiral M.P.Lazarev (named after him, fort ruins were kept). In the settlement there are numerous treatment-improving institutions, a pebbly beach. A monument to M.P.Lazarev, a bust on a tomb of Decembrist A.I.Odoevsky. In vicinities of the settlement - Box-tree and Svirskoe gorges, waterfalls "Forest fairy tale", "Laura's Tear", cork-tree and tea plantations.