Kislovodsk
Kislovodsk (Russian Кисловодск ) is a city with 128 553 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ) in the Stavropol region of Russia. It is located in the northern Caucasus around 234 km away from the capital region of Stavropol, and is a far russia famous spa with very many, dating partly from the 19th century spa buildings.
History
The city was first founded in 1803 as a fortress. During the 19th century, the city established the basis of its occurrence in mineral springs increasingly popular health resort in the Russian upper class. In 1891 the city's population had nearly six-fold since 1856.
To this day, the cure of the city's main industry dar. Kislovodsk is one of the four North Caucasian mineral water spas (the others are Pyatigorsk, Jessentuki and Zheleznovodsk together as Kawminwody ( "Caucasian mineral waters " ) known, not one of them Mineralnye Vody, where there are no mineral water sources). Furthermore, there are in Kislovodsk operations of the food and the furniture industry. In the village is a monitoring station of SDCM system.
The town has a railway terminus for trains to Moscow, among others. The nearest commercial airport is in Mineralnye Vody, which can be reached from Kislovodsk from over Pyatigorsk with local trains.
Demographics
Note: Census data
Further education institutions (selection)
- Branch of the State Academy of Economics Rostov
- Stavropol branch of the University
- Kislowodsker Institute of Economics and Law
Sons and daughters of the town
- Arthur Adamov (1908-1970), French writer and playwright
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), Russian writer, playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1970 )
- Boris Parsadanjan (1925-1997), Estonian composer
- Alexei Obmotschajew (* 1989), Russian volleyball player