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Stalin's dacha

Long before it hosted the Olympics, the resort city of Sochi was the holiday home of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, who had a summer residence built there in 1937. Stalin's dacha, still furnished with some of the original decorations, is now open for visits from tour groups.

The dacha for Joseph Stalin, who led the Soviet Union between the years 1922 and 1953, was built in Sochi in 1937 to the design of Miron Merzhanov, the creator of the Bocharov Ruchey Dacha and the Voroshilov resort centre in Sochi. Stalin’s family spent summers here, but Stalin himself preferred to visit in autumn. He would also receive foreign heads of state here. In memory of the visit of Mao Tse-tung, the founder and ideological leader of the People’s Republic of China, the silver stationary set he gave Stalin is on display at Stalin’s Dacha. Both the dacha’s exterior and interior have been kept intact, complete with the interior finishing of fine wood, the chandeliers, leather couches, Stalin’s custom-made writing table, and his family photographs. The first thing visitors see on entering the ground floor is Stalin’s wax figure at his writing table.