Yessentuki

Yessentuki is a town in Stavropol Krai, Russia, positioned at the bottom of the Caucasus Mountains. The metropolis serves as a railway station inside the Mineralnye Vody — Kislovodsk department, and is located forty three kilometers southwest of Mineralnye Vody and 17 kilometers west of Pyatigorsk. It is considered the cultural capital of Russia's Greek populace or even today in the direction of ten percent of its population is of Greek descent. In 1798, the Russian navy and border redoubt of Yessentuksky became laid at the right financial institution of the Bolshoy Yessentuchok River, close to its confluence with the Podkumok River. After the development of the Kislovodsk castle in 1803, the redoubt changed into abolished, and most effective the Cossack post became saved on its website.

The mineral waters of Yessentuki were first probed in 1810 by means of the Moscow medical doctor Fyodor Gaaz. Gaaz determined small wells with salty water the present Gaazo-Ponomaryovsky spring within the valley of the circulate of Kislusha, approximately 4 kilometers northeast of the Yessentuksky post. A designated observe of Bugunta mineral waters the unique call of the waters, after the Bugunta River flowing close by become made in 1823 by using the Russian doctor and pharmacologist A. P. Nelyubin, who found twenty extra mineral springs on the slopes of the mountain he called Shchelochnaya Nelyubin's numbering of the Yessentuki mineral waters is still maintained. In 1825, General Yermolov founded the stanitsa of Yessentukskaya on the Bugunta River 3.5 kilometers northeast of the former Yessentuksky.