Stavropol ? this capital city is located in a particularly mountainous area of the region and was one of Russia's most important bases during the Russian conquest of the Caucasus; former home to Mikhail Gorbachev and it has a particularly nice urban park
Essentuki ? yet another Caucasian health spa resort with mineral waters, hot springs, sulphide mud baths, and a small, pretty wooden church
Kislovodsk ? meaning "Sour Waters," home to Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Lysogorskaya Stanitsa ? a small Cossack village not far from the health spa cities with a beautiful 19th century wooden church
Mineralnye Vody ? a health spa city named for its "Mineral Waters" at the edge of the; a common flight destination for visitors to the North Caucasus
Pyatigorsk ? major Russian health spa destination surrounded by the five peaks of Beshtau made famous by Lermontov's
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