The Greater Caucasus is the major mountain range of the Caucasus Mountains. It stretches for about 1,200 kilometres from west-northwest to east-southeast, from the Taman Peninsula of the Black Sea to the Absheron Peninsula of the Caspian Sea: from the Western Caucasus in the vicinity of Sochi on the northeastern shore of the Black Sea and r…The Greater Caucasus is the major mountain range of the Caucasus Mountains. It stretches for about 1,200 kilometres from west-northwest to east-southeast, from the Taman Peninsula of the Black Sea to the Absheron Peninsula of the Caspian Sea: from the Western Caucasus in the vicinity of Sochi on the northeastern shore of the Black Sea and reaching nearly to Baku on the Caspian.