Kislovodsk (Russian: Кислово́дск; Kabardian: Нартсанэ;[9][10][11] Karachay-Balkar: Ачысуу[12]) is a spa city in Stavropol Krai, in the North Caucasus region of Russia which is located between the Black and Caspian Seas.

[15][need quotation to verify] The settlement gained town status in 1903.

[citation needed] Several of the events in Mikhail Lermontov's 1840 novel A Hero of Our Time take place in Kislovodsk.

[18] Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) was a native of Kislovodsk.

The Ukrainian historian Mykhailo Hrushevskyi (1866-1934) died in exile in Kislovodsk.