| Area Total Km2: | 3,761.11 |
| Established Date: | 1849 |
| Established Title: | Established |
| Extinct Date: | 1917 |
| Extinct Title: | Abolished |
| Mapsize: | 220px |
| Sochinsky okrug | |
| Native Name: | Сочинскій окргъ |
| Native Name Lang: | ru |
| Population As Of: | 1916 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Population Rural: | 78.94% |
| Population Total: | 62,920 |
| Population Urban: | 21.06% |
| Seat: | Sochi |
| Seat Type: | Capital |
| Settlement Type: | Okrug |
| Subdivision Name: | Russian Empire |
| Subdivision Name1: | Caucasus |
| Subdivision Name2: | Black Sea |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Viceroyalty |
| Subdivision Type2: | Governorate |
| Total Type: | Total |
The Sochinsky okrug was a district (okrug) of the Black Sea Governorate of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. It bordered the Kuban Oblast to the north, the Tuapsinsky okrug to the west, the Sukhumi okrug to the east, and the Black Sea to the south. The area of the Sochinsky okrug mostly corresponds to the Krasnodar Krai region of the Russian Federation. The district was eponymously named for its administrative centre, Sochi.
According to the Russian Empire Census, the Sochinsky okrug had a population of 13,519 on, including 8,147 men and 5,372 women. The plurality of the population indicated Armenian to be their mother tongue, with significant Russian, Greek, Ukrainian, Circassian, and Georgian speaking minorities.[1]
| Armenian | 3,857 | 28.53 | |
| Russian | 2,561 | 18.94 | |
| Greek | 2,092 | 15.47 | |
| Ukrainian | 1,240 | 9.17 | |
| Circassian | 746 | 5.52 | |
| Georgian | 681 | 5.04 | |
| Romanian | 613 | 4.53 | |
| Estonian | 599 | 4.43 | |
| Turkish | 332 | 2.46 | |
| Mingrelian | 269 | 1.99 | |
| German | 166 | 1.23 | |
| Persian | 59 | 0.44 | |
| Belarusian | 53 | 0.39 | |
| Imeretian | 52 | 0.38 | |
| Polish | 49 | 0.36 | |
| Tatar | 28 | 0.21 | |
| Jewish | 13 | 0.10 | |
| Czech | 12 | 0.09 | |
| Other | 97 | 0.72 | |
| TOTAL | 13,519 | 100.00 |
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According to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, the Sochinsky okrug had a population of 62,920 on, including 37,516 men and 25,404 women, 16,227 of whom were the permanent population, and 46,693 were temporary residents:
| Nationality | Urban | Rural | TOTAL | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | ||
| Russians | 9,653 | 72.83 | 22,170 | 44.64 | 31,823 | 50.58 | |
| Armenians | 521 | 3.93 | 13,590 | 27.36 | 14,111 | 22.43 | |
| Other Europeans | 1,003 | 7.57 | 8,324 | 16.76 | 9,327 | 14.82 | |
| Georgians | 1,750 | 13.20 | 4,336 | 8.73 | 6,086 | 9.67 | |
| North Caucasians | 22 | 0.17 | 732 | 1.47 | 754 | 1.20 | |
| Shia Muslims | 227 | 1.71 | 453 | 0.91 | 680 | 1.08 | |
| Jews | 73 | 0.55 | 0 | 0.00 | 73 | 0.12 | |
| Sunni Muslims | 5 | 0.04 | 49 | 0.10 | 54 | 0.09 | |
| Roma | 0 | 0.00 | 12 | 0.02 | 12 | 0.02 | |
| TOTAL | 13,254 | 100.00 | 49,666 | 100.00 | 62,920 | 100.00 | |