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Tambukan Lake (Russian: Тамбукан) is a lake with bitter-salt water on Northern Caucasus in Stavropol Krai (about 33% surface) and the Kabardino-Balkar 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 and 3.1 meters.

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Tambukan Lake
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Location	Northern Caucasus
Coordinates	43.9586°N 43.1616°E / 43.9586; 43.1616
Basin countries	Russia
Surface area	1.87 km2 (0.72 sq mi)
Max. depth	3.1 m (10 ft)

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 description of Tambukan Lake was by Guldenschtedt in 1773.

На других языках

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- [en] Lake Tambukan

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[ru] Тамбукан (озеро)

Тамбукан[4][5][2] (Большое Тамбуканское[2], кабард.-черк. Тамбукъан[6]) — солёное бессточное[7] озеро овальной формы, расположенное на юге России, на границе Предгорного района Ставропольского края и Зольского района Кабардино-Балкарии, в 9 км к юго-востоку от Пятигорска. Служит источником лечебной сульфидной иловой грязи, которая используется в санаториях Кавказских Минеральных Вод и экспортируется.

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