Tambukan Lake

Tambukan Lake

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location = Northern Caucasus
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Tambukan Lake ( _ru. Тамбукан) is a lake with bitter-salt water on Northern Caucasus in Stavropol Krai (about 33% surface) and the Karachay-Cherkess Republic (about 66% surface) of Russia, located eight kilometers from Pyatigorsk. The lake's surface area is 1.87 square kilometers, and its depth ranges between 1.5-3.1 meters. The lake bed is a thick layer of silt, which has been used since 1886) in institutions for mud cures in Yessentuki and other therapeutic mud baths in the region of Caucasian Mineral Water. These mud baths have been used by famous individuals such as Feodor Chaliapin, Anton Chekhov, and Leo Tolstoy.

Notable Events

In 1395, the warlord Timur took a bath in Tambukan Lake.

In 1709, Kabardian prince Murzarbek Tambiev defeated the Crimean-Turkish army near this lake . The word "Tambukan" comes from Turkic words "Tambu qanı" and means "Tambiev’s blood" or "Tambiev’s asylum".

In 1717, Peter The Great sent his physician Shober on expedition to Tambukan Lake to obtain medicinal water and mud.

The first scientific descriprion of Tambukan Lake was by Guldenschtedt in 1773.


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