Pyatigorsk can be translated from Russian as Five Mountains and was named in honour of the five-domed Mount Beshtau (which itself is Turkic for Five Mountains). Pyatigorsk is the largest of the so-called Caucasian Mineral Water resort-cities and the second largest city in the Stavropol Territory. It is situated over 500 metres above sea level on the foothills of the Greater Caucasus overlooked by Mount Mashuk. The city is also known as being the site of the duel in which Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov was killed.