Adlersky City District (Russian: А́длерский райо́н) is the southernmost of four city districts of the city of Sochi in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, lying along the Black Sea coast near the southern Russian border with Abkhazia. Population: 76,534 (2010 Census); 69,120 (2002 Census); 68,827 (1989 Census).
The historical center of the district is the resort of Adler (А́длер—formerly classified as a town, but today a microdistrict of Adlersky City District—located at the mouth of the Mzymta River.
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