Mashuk is a mountain in Russia, in the North Caucasus. Mashuk is notable for being where Russian poet
Mikhail Lermontov
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov ( , ; rus, Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов, , mʲɪxɐˈil ˈjʉrʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈlʲerməntəf, links=yes; – ) was a Russian Romanticism, Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called ...
had his famous duel with
Nikolai Martynov
Nikolai Solomonovich Martynov (; 1815–1875) was the Russian army officer who fatally shot the poet Mikhail Lermontov in a cliff-edge duel
A duel is an arranged engagement in combat between two people with matched weapons.
During the 17th an ...
near
Pyatigorsk
Pyatigorsk (; Circassian languages, Circassian: Псыхуабэ, ''Psıxwabæ'') is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city in Stavropol Krai, Russia, located on the Podkumok River, about from the town of Mineralnye Vody, which has an i ...
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Beshtau
Beshtau (, 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. It gave name to the historical region of (literally "area of ...
Mountains of Russia
Landforms of Stavropol Krai
Mountains of the Caucasus
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