Matsesta Microdistrict

Matsesta (Russian: Мацеста) is a microdistrict in Khostinsky City District in Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russia, primarily known as a spa and resort on the Black Sea coast.

The spa was opened on September 15, 1902, and Matsesta developed as a settlement serving the sulfur baths.

[1] At the time, Matsesta belonged to Black Sea Governorate with the center in Novorossiysk.

[2] Soviet Power was declared in Matsesta in February 1918, followed by the advance of the army of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, which in July 1918 occupied the whole coast up to Tuapse.

The highway serves as the bypass road for the center of Sochi, and it joins the coast next to Matsesta.