Historical Boulevard in Sochi

What to Expect and Is It Worth Visiting

Historic boulevard sometimes also called "secret Boulevard", although, of course, there is nothing secret in it, and many tourists walk along it, not even suspecting that this is a landmark. In general, historically this place has always been called "upper embankment", and today a pedestrian route called "historical Boulevard" has been conditionally organized here.

So, the historical Boulevard is a pedestrian route through the center of Sochi, which runs from the Sea station to the Winter theater, but not along the embankment, but parallel to it and a little higher. A few years ago there were abandoned footpaths, but now they have been updated and equipped, signatures have been installed to historical sights and monuments, signs, a route map and even QR codes in the most interesting places so that you can get more information about them. So if you like to walk, you should definitely take a walk here. In addition, this is one of the best places from where you can watch beautiful sunsets on the sea.

On the route there are several dozen tourist sites, which are loudly called objects of cultural heritage. In fact, these are just monuments, several old buildings, a drinking pump room, a gazebo, a square with fountains, etc. here is a list of objects that you should pay attention to (in order when moving from the Winter theater):

• Uspensky's dacha is an architectural monument of regional significance built in 1884.
• Square of S. I. Venchagov opposite the winter theater-there is a pond with red-eared turtles.
• The Winter Theatre building is a historic building dating back to 1937.
• Drinking pump room – you can drink for free and take with you for a walk the therapeutic and dining mineral water Plastunskaya.
• Seaside Park - a long green park with palm trees, benches for recreation, monuments and sculptures, through which passes almost half the way along the boulevard.
• The Primorskaya hotel is a large-scale building of the sanatorium of the Soviet period built in 1936, currently inactive and planned for reconstruction.
• The Pushkin library is just a beautiful architectural building.
• The Sochi Art Museum and the Art Square in front of it are located a little away from the boulevard on Kurortny Prospekt.
• Cathedral of Michael the Archangel-the oldest church since 1891.
• The ruins of the wall of the Navaginsky fort are located next to the Cathedral on the territory of The Art Gallery "Fort".
• Sea station - one of the iconic points and symbol of Sochi.

This is only a small part of the objects-attractions on the route and the most significant of them. You can find out about all the others already on the spot according to the route diagrams or armed with electronic maps. For example, you can use Yandex. maps, where all the details are marked in detail.

A leisurely walk with stops near each place and photographing will take no more than a couple of hours, and you can quickly walk along the boulevard in 20 minutes. And by the way, in the evening many of the objects of the route are beautifully highlighted.

We also advise you to see interesting options for individual and group tours of Sochi on these proven sites:

• 📷 search for excursions in Sochi on Sputnik8.com
• 📷 excursions from the tour operator TEZ Tour
• 📷 search for excursions in Sochi on Tripster.ru