Sochi national park to spend 25 million on land surveying

Sochi National Park was created in 1983 to protect nature due to the large influx of tourists. It is located on the territory of Greater Sochi - from the Tuapse district in the northwest to the borders with Abkhazia in the southeast and from the Black Sea coast to the Main Caucasian Range. The main value of the national park is mountain forests, which occupy 94.1 percent of the area.The park borders on the UNESCO Western Caucasus World Heritage Site. The national park includes the Krasnaya Polyana district, on the territory of which the mountain-tourist center of Gazprom, the Rosa Khutor ski complex and the Krasnaya Polyana resort were built.