Kislovodsk

city Kislovodsk Кисловодск flag coat of arms Federal district North Caucasus region Stavropol Urban district Kislovodsk Founded 1803 City since 1830 surface 72  km² population 128,553 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1785 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 810  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 87937 Post Code 357700-357748 License Plate 26, 126 OKATO 07 415 Website kislovodsk-kurort.org Geographical location Coordinates 43 ° 55 '  N , 42 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 55 '0 "  N , 42 ° 43' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in the Stavropol Territory

List of cities in Russia

Kislowodsk ( Russian Кислово́дск ) is a city with 128,553 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in the Stavropol region in Russia . It is located in the northern Caucasus around 234 kilometers from the regional capital Stavropol and is a well-known spa town in Russia with a large number of spa houses, some of which date from the 19th century.

history

An old spa house in Kislovodsk

The city was initially founded as a fortress in 1803. In the course of the 19th century, the place increasingly established itself as a spa town popular with the Russian upper class due to its mineral springs . In 1891 the city's population had increased nearly six-fold since 1856.

To this day, the spa is the main branch of the city's economy. Kislovodsk, the name of which is derived from the Russian term for sourling , is one of the four North Caucasian mineral water spas, collectively known as Kawminwody ("Caucasian mineral water"). Also included are Pyatigorsk , Essentuki and Zheleznovodsk , but not Mineralnyje Vody , where there are no mineral water springs.

There are also food and furniture industries in Kislovodsk. There is a monitoring station of the SDCM system in the village .

The city has a terminus station with train connections to Moscow, among others . The nearest commercial airport is in Mineralnye Vody , which can be reached from Kislovodsk via Pyatigorsk by local trains.

Population development

year	Residents	comment
1939	51,332	and 14,229 Stanitsa Kislowodskaja (incorporated in 1959)
1959	77,998
1970	89,571
1979	100,932
1989	114.414
2002	129,788
2010	128,553
2017	129,861

Note: census data

Further educational institutions (selection)

• Branch of the Rostov State Economic Academy
• Branch of the Stavropol University
• Kislovodsk Institute of Economics and Law

sons and daughters of the town

• Arthur Adamov (1908–1970), French translator, writer and playwright of Armenian origin
• Sinaida Udalzowa (1918–1987), Soviet Medievalist, Byzantine and university professor
• Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), Russian writer, playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1970)
• Boris Parsadanjan (1925–1997), Estonian composer
• Yuri Shchukin (* 1979), Kazakh tennis player of Russian origin
• Sergei Grankin (* 1985), Russian volleyball player
• Alexei Obmochayev (* 1989), Russian volleyball player

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)

Web links

Commons : Kislovodsk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• www.kisl.ru
• www.kmvtur.ru
• Kislovodsk