Russia: Huge Natural & Controlled Avalanches Hit Elbrus Mountains, Caucasia

The name Elbrus /ˈɛlbrus/ seems to have a connection with Alborz (also called Elburz), which is also the name of a long mountain range in northern Iran. The name is derived from Avestan Harā Bərəzaitī, a legendary mountain in Iranian mythology. Harā Bərəzaitī reflects Proto-Iranian *Harā Bṛzatī, which was reformed into Middle Persian as Harborz, and into Modern Persian as Alborz. Bṛzatī is the feminine form of the adjective *bṛzant ("high"), the reconstructed ancestor of Modern Ossetian bærzond ("high", "peak"), Modern Persian bārez ("high"), berāzande ("elegant"), and boland ("high", "tall"), and Modern Kurdish barez ("high"). Harā may be interpreted as "watch" or "guard", from Indo-European *ser ("protect").
Mount Elbrus is the highest mountain in Russia and Europe. It is a dormant stratovolcano rising 5,642 m (18,510 ft) above sea level, and is the second highest volcano in Eurasia, after Mount Damavand in IRAN, as well as the tenth-most prominent peak in the world. It is situated in the southern Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria in the western extension of Ciscaucasia, and is the highest peak of the Caucasus Mountains.

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