Vesyoloye is a village situated in Krasnodar Krai

Krasnodar Krai

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, Russia

Russia

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, just 18 kilometers southeast of the Adlersky City District

Adlersky City District

Adlersky City District is the southernmost of four city districts of the city of Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russia, lying along the Black Sea coast near the southern Russian border with Abkhazia, Georgia...

 of Sochi

Sochi

Sochi is a city in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, situated just north of Russia's border with the de facto independent republic of Abkhazia, on the Black Sea coast. Greater Sochi sprawls for along the shores of the Black Sea near the Caucasus Mountains...

. The village's population as of 2002

Russian Census (2002)

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 is 4,100. The Psou River

Psou River

Psou River is a river in the West Caucasus. It flows along the Southern slopes of the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range and forms a part of the border between Georgia and Russia. The river flows into the Black Sea. The length of the Psou is 57 km and the drainage basin is approximately...

 divides Vesyoloye with the Republic of Georgia, and traffic between Russian and Georgia is regulated by the Psou border control

Border control

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 center. The village is part of the M27 highway

M27 highway (Russia)

The Russian route M27 is a Russian federal highway, a mountain highway that runs along the coast of the Black Sea in Krasnodar Krai from Novorossiysk through Gelendzhik, Tuapse, and Greater Sochi to Adler. The road terminates at Russia's border with Georgia....

 which terminates at the Russian-Georgian border.

History

The word vesyoloye in Russian means "cheerful", and the village was named this way due to its beautiful and "cheerful-looking" localities. Vesyoloye is famous for its Research Institute of Medical Primatology, established in 1927. The village is also known for having the cheapest fruit market where goods can be obtained from Abkhazia. In 2008 an ethnographic museum opened in Vesyoloye, containing exhibits of archaic materials which various ethnic groups (Russians

Russians

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, Armenians

Armenians

Armenian people or Armenians are a nation and ethnic group native to the Armenian Highland.The largest concentration is in Armenia having a nearly-homogeneous population with 97.9% or 3,145,354 being ethnic Armenian....

, Adyghe

Adyghe

The Adyghe or Adygs , also often known as Circassians or Cherkess, are in origin a North Caucasian ethnic groupwho were displaced in the course of the Russian conquest of the Caucasus in the 19th century, especially after the Russian–Circassian War of 1862.Adyghe people mostly speak Adyghe and most...

, Georgians

Georgians

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) in the region used.