Mount Beshtau | |
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Бештау | |
Highest point | |
Elevation | 1,401 m (4,596 ft) |
Coordinates | 44°4′36.62″N 43°0′53.64″E / 44.0768389°N 43.0149000°E |
Naming | |
Etymology | from Turkic beş 'five' and tau 'mountain' |
Native name | Бештау (Russian) |
Geography | |
Country | Russia |
Federal subject | Stavropol Krai |
City | near Pyatigorsk |
Parent range | Greater Caucasus |
Geology | |
Mountain type | Volcano |
Beshtau (Russian: Бештау, from Turkic beş 'five' and tau 'mountain') is an isolated five-domed igneous mountain (volcano) in the northern vicinity of Pyatigorsk (after the Russian term Pyatigorye 'area of five mountains') in the Northern Caucasus.[1][2][3]
Its height is 1,401 m (4,596 ft). The slopes are forested with ash, oak, hornbeam, and beech deciduous forests, and the summit is treeless. Beshtau used to have uranium mines, which were closed in 1975.