Sights Sochi - Vardane, Russia

The name comes from the village Vardane toponym Vordane or Ordane. So in the first half of the XIX century, known as part of the coastal Ubyhii Hobza from the river to the watershed between the rivers and Dagomys Psakhie. Then it was the largest rural community. Historian Ksenofontov also connects with the ancient history of Vardan ubyhami and tells them wonderful things: "... Complete removal ubyhov to Turkey in the spring of 1864, after their surrender at the end of the Caucasian War, the subsequent almost total assimilation and loss there Ubykh language, not had a written and leaving only faint traces in the work of individual researchers, in the aggregate amounted to considerable difficulties in studying this peculiar people, prominently in many respects in the surrounding Adygei-Abkhazian environment. Ethnographers more than a century trying to work out any reasonable version of ethnicity ubyhov. Historians wonder extraordinary bellicosity of the small (about 50 thousand people), people over 30 years, appears before cementing the core of the West-Caucasian tribes in their war of defense against the expansion of the Russian tsarist regime in the Caucasus in the middle of the XIX century ...."

Before the communist coup in 1917, Vardan was defeated in a beautiful park in the estate of the Romanov dynasty. The eyes of royalty caressed camellias and many other heat-loving plants are not found in any other region of Russia Empire.

The beach strip in Vardane stretching for 500 meters. The shore is covered with pebbles.