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Kislovodsk

Kislovodsk is a city in Stavropol Krai

Stavropol Krai

Stavropol Krai is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia of Stavropol....
, Russia

Russia

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. It lies in the North Caucasian

North Caucasian

North Caucasian may refer to:*North Caucasus*North Caucasian languages*North Caucasian peoples...
region of Russia, between the Black

Black Sea

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and Caspian

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seas. The closest airport is located in the city of Mineralnye Vody

Mineralnye Vody

Mineralnye Vody is a town located in Stavropol Krai, Russia. It lies along the Kuma River and the main rail line between Rostov-na-Donu and Baku ....
. Population:

Kislovodsk (lit. sour waters) was founded in 1803 as a military station.

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Kislovodsk is a city in Stavropol Krai

Stavropol Krai

Stavropol Krai is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia of Stavropol....
, Russia

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
. It lies in the North Caucasian

North Caucasian

North Caucasian may refer to:*North Caucasus*North Caucasian languages*North Caucasian peoples...
region of Russia, between the Black

Black Sea

Caspian Sea

Mineralnye Vody

Spa town

A spa town, or simply spa, is a town frequented mainly for health reasons, to "take the waters". The word comes from the Belgium town Spa, Belgium....
. Other notable spa towns in the vicinity include Yessentuki and Pyatigorsk

Pyatigorsk

Pyatigorsk is a types of settlements in Russia in Stavropol Krai on the Podkumok River in the Southern Federal District of Russia, about twenty kilometers from Mineralnye Vody....
. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Kislovodsk as a fashionable spa attracted many musicians, artists, and members of the Russian aristocracy. Several of the events in Mikhail Lermontov

Mikhail Lermontov

Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov , , a Russian language Romanticism writer and poet, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", was the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death....
's novel A Hero Of Our Time
A Hero of Our Time

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are set in Kislovodsk.

The most famous native of Kislovodsk is Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize , established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel; it was first awarded in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize in Literature, and Nobel Peace Prize in 1901....
winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Russians novelist, dramatist and historian. Through his writings, he made the world aware of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labour camp system, and for these efforts Solzhenitsyn was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974....
. Nikolai Yaroshenko

Nikolai Yaroshenko

Nikolai Alexandrovich Yaroshenko was a Russian painter of Ukraine origin.Nikolai Alexandrovich Yaroshenko was born on in the city of Poltava, Russian Empire to a son of a Imperial Russian Army officer....
's memorial house is open to the public.

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