Day 9
Elbrus - Mineralnye Vodyj
This Day we will leave for Pyatigorsk. It is the oldest spa and mud resort of federal importance as well as an industrial, commercial, scientific, cultural, and tourist center of the Caucasian Mineral Waters (Kavkazskiye Mineralniye Vody) eco-resort region. In 2010 it was named the capital of the newly created North Caucasus federal district. The name Pyatigorsk means "five mountains city". This day we visit some places of interest: the Shameless Baths, the Lermontov's grot, the Diana's grot, the Proval with its blue water, which has an interesting legend, the Lermontov house, where the great poet lived, the place of his duel, where he was killed in 1841, the wonderful Lermontov gallery and some other places.