Proper noun
Sochi
A city in the Krasnodar kray (krai) of Russia, host of the 2014 Winter Olympics.
As BelTA reported earlier, the presidents drew special attention to the BelNPP construction at the meeting in Sochi on 7 February 2020. Source: Internet
A Siberia Airlines flight bound for Sochi that day was also bombed, killing all 46 who were on board. Source: Internet
Chess is a widely popular pastime in Russia; from 1927, Russian grandmasters have held the world chess championship almost continuously. citation The 2014 Winter Olympics were held in Sochi in the south of Russia. Source: Internet
Gagarin was further selected for an elite training group known as the Sochi Six, from which the first cosmonauts of the Vostok programme would be chosen. Source: Internet
The report cited public records of flights by presidential planes that seemed to contradict Kremlin statements about Mr. Putin’s whereabouts, as well as several unnamed sources said to have knowledge of the duplicate office in the Black Sea city of Sochi. Source: Internet
After being one of the final cuts prior to the 2014 Sochi Games, Lacquette impressed during Canada’s women’s national hockey team’s run-up to the 2018 Olympics. Source: Internet