Mineralnye Vody

Mineralnye Vody (Russian Cyrillic: Минеральные Воды) is a town in Stavropol Krai famous for its literary history and its health spas/sanatoria. Indeed, the town's name means Mineral Waters.

Get in

By plane

It is easy to get to Mineralnye Vody by flying directly from Moscow, Saint Petersburg, or certain other large Russian airports.

  • 🌍 Mineralnye Vody Airport (MRV  IATA) (4 km of the city), +7 879 222-07-77. It's one of the biggest airport in Southern Russia, serving about 2 millions passengers each year. It was completely rebuilt a few years ago, after that it has everything that could be expected from any other typical airport: duty free shops, eateries, money exchange offices, luggage storage. Flight fro, a number of cities including Moscow and Istanbul
Getting there:
By bus: shuttle bus #10, 11 goes to the Mineralnye Vody railway station (travel time 20-25 min). Shuttle bus #11 goes to the central bus station (every 30-40 min, 06:00 - 19:30, travel time 10 min, "Ruslan Market" bus stop).
Taxi:

Get around

There are lots of buses and taxis in Mineralnye Vody.

See

  • Mount Elbrus located not far away in Kabardino-Balkaria, Elbrus is visible on a clear day from MinVody.

Do

Buy

Eat

Drink

Sleep

Stay safe

If you break the law the police may seek bribes, otherwise they should give no difficulties.

Go next

MinVody is a primary gateway to the Russian Caucasus, especially for mountaineers headed towards Karachay-Cherkessia and Kabardino-Balkaria.

gollark: Not *just* factories, you need all the buildings in that list (with scale/density options) and more.
gollark: "Flat" would just be a "home" in a high-density/high-size thing.
gollark: You should probably have size and density things actually.
gollark: Okay, more: barn, farm, greenhouse, shed, museum, arena of some kind, city hall (or other governance building), embassy, post office, granary, bunker, missile launch facility, airport, taxi station, shipyard, and gym.
gollark: Okay then. Buildings which could exist: house, office, shop, mall, factory, mine, school, police station, SCP containment warehouse, regular warehouse, bus station, bus *stop* (sort of a building), underground train network stop, non-underground train network station, fire station, fire removal station, power plant, apiary, sewage treatment facility, garbage dump, garbage incinerator™, hospital, clinic (small hospital), plaza, park (sort of building), data center, hotel, prison, retirement home, theater, retirement home, restaurant, cafe, bowling alley, car wash, self-storage facility, seaport, car repair place, car dealership, bookshop, library, scientific laboratory, bank, substation, *nuclear* power plant, university, radio/TV/whatever transmitter, cell tower, [more coming].You should probably have a mechanic so you can have, say, apartment buildings composed of multiple "houses", but more generalized.
This article is issued from Wikivoyage. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.