Laza Hall - Lazarevskoe

Featuring a glass facade and views of the Black Sea, this modern hotel is a 12-minute walk from a bus stop and 3 km from the Morskaya Zvezda water park. Relaxed rooms feature free Wi-Fi, plus TVs and minifridges. Some add colorful artwork, plus microwaves, and tea and coffee-making facilities, in addition to balconies and/or floor-to-ceiling windows with sea views. There's also a laid-back cottage featuring rooms with kitchens. Modest single-sex dorm rooms come with bunk beds and lockers, plus shared bathrooms and a kitchenette. Amenities include a cafe and an outdoor rooftop pool with a sunbathing terrace.

Sochi, a Russian city on the Black Sea, is known as a summer beach resort, and was host of the 2014 Winter Olympics. Its parks include the palm-filled Arboretum. It's also notable for 20th-century neoclassical buildings such as the columned Winter Theatre. Forested Sochi National Park is a 1,937-sq.-km protected area in the nearby Caucasus Mountains. Some 70 km inland, Krasnaya Polyana is a prominent ski resort.

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Russia, the world’s largest nation, borders European and Asian countries as well as the Pacific and Arctic oceans. Its landscape ranges from tundra and forests to subtropical beaches. It’s famous for Moscow's Bolshoi and St. Petersburg's Mariinsky ballet companies. St. Petersburg, founded by Russian leader Peter the Great, has the baroque Winter Palace, now housing part of the State Hermitage Museum’s art collection.

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