Lermontov (Russian: Ле́рмонтов) is a town in Stavropol Krai, Russia. Population: 22,964 (2002 Census); 16,500 (1973). Stavropol Krai (Russian: ) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai). ... For the Cusco album, see 2002 (album). ... Russian Census of 2002 (Russian: ) was the first census of Russian Federation carried out on October 9, 2002. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ...

The town was named after a Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov. It was granted town status in 1956. Lermontov is located on the mountainside of Beshtau close to the cities of Pyatigorsk and Mineralnye Vody. A poet exists within a cultural and intellectual tradition and usually writes in a specific language, but the qualities of good poetry are to some extent timeless and address issues common to all humanity. ... Mikhail Lermontov in 1837 Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов), (October 15, 1814–July 27, 1841), a Russian Romantic writer and poet, sometimes called the poet of the Caucasus, was the most important presence in the Russian poetry from Alexander Pushkins death until his own four years later, at the age... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Bashtau (Russian: Бештау, from Turkic besh - five and tau - mountain), isolated five-domed igneous mountain (laccolith) near Pyatigorsk in the Northern Caucasus. ... Pyatigorsk (Russian: Пятигорск) is a city of a population of over 200,000 (2002) located in Stavropol Krai on the Podkumok River in the Northern Caucasus Federal District of Russia about twenty kilometers from Mineralnye Vody, at 44°2′N 43°4′E. The name Pyatigorsk means five mountains in Russian... Mineralnye Vody (Russian: Минеральные Воды) is a spa town located in the Stavropol Krai in southwestern Russia. ...