Nalchik is the capital city of the Kabardino-Balkar Republic, Russia, situated at an altitude of 550 meters in the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains; about 100 kilometers northwest of Beslan. It covers an area of 131 square kilometers.
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Russia, the world?s largest nation, borders European and Asian countries as well as the Pacific and Arctic oceans. Its landscape ranges from tundra and forests to subtropical beaches. It?s famous for Moscow's Bolshoi and St. Petersburg's Mariinsky ballet companies. St. Petersburg, founded by Russian leader Peter the Great, has the baroque Winter Palace, now housing part of the State Hermitage Museum?s art collection.

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