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Kislovodsk is located 50 kilometers to the south-west of the other balneological resorts in the Mineralnye Vody Region: Pyatigorsk, Yessentuki and Zheleznovodsk, located in the immediate vicinity of each other. But all the same Kislovodsk is the most popular resort for those who go to the Mineralnye Vody Region for recreation. If you go there for treatment, you will have no choice, as your doctor will prescribe the resort and treatment course depending on what mineral waters you need.

The main difference of Kislovodsk from the rest of balneological resorts is the huge terraced Resort Park on the slope of the Djinal Ridge. The town properly is located at the altitude of 800-1,100 m in the foothills of the Caucasus Ridge. And though the mountains are far away and can be seen only in good weather, in Kislovodsk you can feel the mountain climate, which creates, together with Narzan springs, the resort atmosphere there.

The Resort Avenue with the building of the Main Narzan Baths can be considered the center of the town. It was just for this that hundreds of thousands of people have come there for several centuries. Currently the Main Narzan Baths are under restoration, but you can go to the October Baths for a full treatment.

The Narzan Gallery is located a bit farther from the October Baths towards the Resort Park. And it was just there that the biggest Narzan spring was tapped in 1894. The resort-visitors come to this gallery to drink Narzan, as prescribed: either cold, or warm, or hot. It must be noted that the taste of Narzan is fairly pleasant, unlike the hydrogen sulfide springs of Pyatigorsk. It would be difficult to even approach them because of intolerable smell, but if the doctors prescribe these waters – you have nothing to do but to drink them up.

At the Narzan Gallery a road to the Resort Park starts and goes along the river Olkhovka. The park is just huge. At the cypress alley rather steep ascent to the Djinal Ridge begins. The road is cascading, and all paths are carefully planned as to the routes and distances that the resort-visitors should take according to the recommendations of their doctors. At the top of the ridge there is the place that Lermontov liked to visit. There is a monument to this great Russian poet.

Most Kislovodsk sanatoriums specialize in the treatment of heart deceases. Some of them also offer the treatment of asthma and tuberculosis, as well as nervous system.

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Colonnade over the Olkhovka riverbed, built in 1912 in the Lower Park of Kislovodsk
View of the Kislovodsk Resort Park from the viewing point near the Temple of Air
Sculpture of an Eagle on Red stones in the Resort Park of Kislovodsk
The Greek arch and the upper part of the Cascade staircase of Kislovodsk
The building of the Main Narzan Baths on Kurortny Avenue of Kislovodsk
Narzan spring under the glass dome in the oldest Narzan gallery of Kislovodsk. It was built in 1894.
The Rose Valley as viewed from the upper viewing point in Kislovodsk Resort Park
Kurortny boulevard is the main resort street in Kislovodsk 
The Kislovodsk Philharmonic Hall was built in 1895 and was formerly called the Kursaal
Lower Kurortny Park near the river Olkhovka
The Temple of Air, where there is one of the viewing point of the Kislovodsk Resort Park
Lenin Monument on Red Stones in the Resort Park of Kislovodsk
Thuja alley on terrainkur No. 3 in the Resort Park of Kislovodsk
Oktyabrsky mineral baths is the main center for taking Narzan baths in Kislovodsk
Terrainkur No. 3 near the tactile trail in the Resort Park of Kislovodsk
Monument to Pushkin in the Lower Resort Park of Kislovodsk near the Olkhovka River
The facade of the Narzan gallery facing Resort Boulevard in Kislovodsk
The length of the pedestrian Kurortny boulevard is less than a kilometer
The Narzan Valley Balneological Complex is located in the Khasaut River gorge 30 kilometers from Kislovodsk
Highlander`s Tower near the entrance to the Mineral Water Springs in the Narzan Valley near Kislovodsk
The highest Honey Waterfall is 18 meters high, in the vicinity of Kislovodsk
Mount Ring is one of the most popular attractions in the vicinity of Kislovodsk
St. Nicholas Cathedral in Kislovodsk was restored in the late 1990s
View from the Cascade staircase to Kislovodsk
White Villa - Museum-Estate of the artist Nikolay Yaroshenko in Kislovodsk
Halls of the Estate-Museum of Nikolay Yaroshenko in Kislovodsk with his paintings
The painting Shat-Mount (1884), by Nikolay Yaroshenko, in the Yaroshenko`s Estate Museum in Kislovodsk
Villa of Chaliapin in Kislovodsk is a museum dedicated to the great Russian opera singer Fyodor Chaliapin
The stone on the site of the foundation of Kislovodsk near the fortress, which now houses the Local History Museum
The appearance of the Kislovodsk fortress in the middle of the 19th century, in the Historical Museum of Kislovodsk