Beshtau

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Mount Beshtau
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 / 44.0768389; 43.0149000
Naming
Etymology	from Turkic beş 'five' and tau 'mountain'
Native name	Бештау (Russian)
Geography
Mount Beshtau
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 in the Northern Caucasus.^[1][2][3] It gave name to the historical region of Pyatigorye [ru] (literally "area of five mountains"), the town of Pyatigorsk, and the ethnonym Pyatigoryan Circassians [ru] or Pyatigortsy (Circassi Quinquemontani on old Western European maps).

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 managed by the Mine Administration No. 10 [ru] of the Ministry of Medium Machine-Building (an euphemism for the Soviet nuclear industry), which were operating during 1950 – 1988.

By the foothill of the mountain there is the Second Athos Monastery of the Dormition [ru].

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