The city is home to a sizable Armenian minority ( ~ 20 % ) , which is especially notable in the Adlersky City District where they compose more than half of the total population . Most of Sochi 's Armenian community are descendants of Hamshen Armenians from Turkey 's northeastern Black Sea coast who came in the late 19th century and on . The rest are Armenians from Georgia ( particularly from Abkhazia and Samtskhe-Javakheti ) and Armenia ( especially from Shirak Province due to the 1988 earthquake )
1988 earthquake
1988 Armenian earthquake
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