Beshtau

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Beshtau (Template:Langx, 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 Template:Ill (literally "area of five mountains"), the town of Pyatigorsk, and the ethnonym Template:Ill or Pyatigortsy (Circassi Quinquemontani on old Western European maps).

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View of Mount Beshtau from the top of Mount Mashuk (Машук)

Its height is Script error: No such module "convert".. 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 Template:Ill 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 Template:Ill.

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