Kislovodsk (; ; ) is a spa city in Stavropol Krai, in the North Caucasus region of Russia which is located between the Black and Caspian Seas. It is part of the Caucasian Mineral Waters region.
Demographics Population:
Etymology The Russian-language name of the city translates as "sour water" and originated due to the abundance of mineral-water () springs in the area.
History The settlement gained town status in 1903. Several of the events in Mikhail Lermontov's 1840 novel A Hero of Our Time take place in Kislovodsk.
Archaeology Numerous settlements of the Koban culture (ca. 1100 to 400 BC) are found in the Kislovodsk city and its surroundings.Sabine REINHOLD, Dmitri S. KOROBOV, The Kislovodsk basin in the North Caucasian piedmonts – archaeology and GIS studies in a mountain cultural landscape. 2007 They include the sites of Industria I, Sultan-gora I, Berezovka I, Berezovka II, Berezovka III, Berezovka IV.
Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is, together with seven rural localities, incorporated as the city of krai significance of Kislovodsk—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.Resolution #63-p As a municipal division, the city of krai significance of Kislovodsk is incorporated as Kislovodsk Urban Okrug.Law #88-kz
Geography The city is located in the North Caucasus region of Russia which is located between the Black and Caspian Seas. Climate
In literature Several of the events in Mikhail Lermontov's 1840 novel A Hero of Our Time take place in Kislovodsk.Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time, translated by Vladimir Nabokov in collaboration with Dmitri Nabokov, Anchor Books, 1958, chapter "Princess Mary" (p. 172: "I reached Kislovodsk, exhausted"; p. 176: "I returned to Kislovodsk at five in the morning")
Notable people Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) was a native of Kislovodsk. A museum was planned in the house he was born. Renovations were to begin in 2011. Nikolai Yaroshenko's (1846-1898) memorial house is open to the public.
The Ukrainian historian Mykhailo Hrushevskyi (1866-1934) died in exile in Kislovodsk.
Arthur Adamov, was a playwright, one of the foremost exponents of the Theatre of the Absurd of Armenian descent Zuhra Bayramkulova (1940–2013), farmer and politician, was born there. Sergei Cheryomin (born 1963), businessman and government official Felix Feodosidi (born 1933), wine maker. Nikolai Levashov, psychic healer, occultist and writer Boris Parsadanian, composer, was born there. Karine Shadoyan, wrestler born in Kislovodsk who represented Armenia.
Twin towns and sister cities
Kislovodsk is twinned with:
Aix-les-Bains, France Baguio, Philippines Batumi, Georgia Kiryat Yam, Israel Muscatine, Iowa, United States Nazran, Republic of Ingushetia, Russia Velingrad, Bulgaria
Gallery
See also History of the Jews in Kislovodsk
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External links Official website of Kislovodsk