Villa Vera is located in the historical part of the city of Sochi and is a monument of regional significance.

In October 1872, a Moscow merchant of the first Guild Nikolay Mamontov built here for his daughter Faith is a beautiful wooden cottage. Faith was very ill, so was limited in movement. Near the mansion of the merchant planted a garden with different fruit trees and fruit trees, planted flowers and shrubs. The entire Villa is just buried in verdure.

Thanks Matsesta springs and fresh air the daughter of the state N. N. Mammoth is much improved. Soon she married a local city warden N. And.Kostareva, after which the country along with the Park passed into their possession. Vera was actively involved in the life of the city and was the main initiator of establishment of the city library in honor of the 100th anniversary of A. S. Pushkin. Since there was not space for a library, Kostareva decided to give this your mansion. In 1910 on the site of an old dilapidated building was built a new two-storey stone house and expanded Park.

The mansion has retained its previous name - the Villa of "Faith". Like most merchants of the buildings, the architecture is eclectic. To determine the origin of this architectural project did not succeed, although it is known that this project was commissioned in St. Petersburg.

After the revolution the estate of Kostenevich nationalized, from January to July 1918 it housed the revolutionary Executive Committee of the Soviet of workers', soldiers 'and peasants' deputies of the Sochi district. From 1943 to 1946 it housed in the evacuation hospitals and sanatorium named tsyurupy. In the 1960s, after the sanatorium was transferred to another room, area of which was Villa, redesigned and reconstructed, began land redistribution. Until 1992, the building housed the Sochi schoolchildren's Palace and the pioneers, and from 1992 to present day - the Sochi city center of extracurricular activities.

Villa Vera is a monument of culture, history and urban development, protected by the state.