Mineral Water Spas Getting there & around

Getting there & away

Local transport

Taxi

Taxi prices from the airport are Pyatigorsk (R300), Kislovodsk (R500) and Dombay or Elbrus (R2000 to R2500). You may be able to negotiate a better price from an arriving rather than a rank taxi.

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Air

The regional centre is Mineralnye Vody with the regional airport and train station. Despite being as flash as a country bus stand and, according to a BBC report, one of the worst run in Russia, the airport(86531-58221) is an important air transport hub.

Daily flights (R3590 to R4160) go to Moscow Vnukovo, Domodedovo and She- remetyevo 1 with KMV Airlines, Aeroflot and Siberia Air. KMV (R5390 to R6500, Thursday and Sunday) and Pulkovo (R6400, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday) fly to St Petersburg.

KMV also flies to Baku, Azerbaijan (R4500, Thursday and Saturday), Yerevan, Armenia (R4000, Monday, Tuesday and Friday), and Munich (US$300, Tuesday).

KMV Avia charter flights go to Istanbul (US$220, Sunday) and Antalya (US$270, Thursday and Saturday) in Turkey and to Salonika (€166, Friday) in Greece.

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