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Sights • A cult place is Pirogovsky baths. A wooden soldier hospital, in which the Great Russian surgeon demonstrated, doctors an anesthetization procedure for operations in the field. Now there are 22 baths with using sulfide mineral waters. Doorway is decorated with a memorial wall with a bas-relief portrait of N. I. Pirogov. Such procedures as shower-massage, whirlpool baths, foot-controlled chamber settings, and sulfide baths with oxygen inhalation are provided in Pirogov’s baths. More than 650 procedures are carried out for a shift.
On the northern slope of Goryachaya Mountain there is Diana’s grotto (park Cvetnik). According to contemporaries Lermontov was a frequent visitor of Diana’s Grotto. And a week before his tragic death the poet organized a ball in this grotto. Pergolla“Eol’s harp”. The small stone pergola is one of sights of Pyatigorsk. A wooden case with two harps was mounted into the stone floor; a weathercock on the dome of the pergola, turning under the influence of the wind, geared a device, touching strings, - melodic sounds were heard, hence the name of the pergola “Eola’s harp” (Eol – a god of wind). M. J. Lermontov used to come to Eol’s harp and mentioned it in story “Princess Mary”.
Proval is an amazing monument of nature in Pyatigorsk on the mountain Mashuk, formed under the action of mineral waters. The lake is located in an underground cave karst origin. It was found in the collapse of the code, where through the hole the blue lake became visible (color gives sulfur and special bacteria).
ZheleznovodskZheleznovodsk, the smallest of all spa towns, is situated in a narrow wooden valley between Mount Beshtau and Mount Zheleznaya.
The name of this famous Russian resort means’ Iron Waters’ as the mineral waters of Zheleznovodsk were believed to have high content of iron. There are several hot and warm mineral springs there that help people with digestion and metabolism problems. These waters can be tasted during the unforgettable walks in the Lechebny Park which spreads like a carpet at the picturesque slopes of Mount Zheleznaya.
Sights Smirnovsky spring A colour music fountain occupies a ground before the Smirnovsky spring. It is one of the beloved places of rest of adults and children. Slavyanovsky spring, which acquired the name of its discoverer, is situated in the park in the center of a chestnut alley.
Cascade stairs in the resort park of Zheleznovodsk appeared in the 30-s of last century during the reconstruction of the city. Decorative lake. This artificial lake decorated the city in 1954 and appeared owing to citizens of Zheleznovodsk, who dug it by spades without assistance, gathering after their working day.
Pushkin’s gallery, which was erected in 1901, was bought at fair in Nizhniy Novgorod and it is notable for the fact that together with Lermontov’s tower in Pyatigorsk and Eifel tower in Paris represents first samples of erections which were assembled of ready constructions. Near Pushkin’s gallery there is another sight of the park – the northern building of sanatorium of E. Telman – a former palace of emir Bukharsky.
KislovodskKislovodsk is a splendid place for vocation with its mountainous air, beautiful scenery, the richest park with the unique paths for promenade more than 70 km length and curative “narzan” mineral waters.
Sights Narzan gallery was built in medieval English style in 1848-1953 by architects S. Upton, H. Fransua. There is “Boiling well” (a spring of Narzan), drinking well-rooms and a resort library with reading-room in it. One of magnificence of the nature is legendary Ring-mountain, more precisely, a reach-through hole in it.
