Mount Elbrus Russia. The name "Elbrus" is a metathesis of "Alborz", which is also the name of a long mountain range in northern Iran. It is derived from Avestan "Harā Bərəzaitī", which is 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 "barz" ("high"), "berāzande" ("elegant"), and "boland" ("high", "tall"), and Modern Kurdish "barz" ("high"). "Harā" may be interpreted as "watch" or "guard", from
Elbrus Race on every September - see http://fastestknowntime.elbrusrace.com/ Many outstanding athletes took part in the Elbrus Race in the past 13 years, Denis Urubko, Andrey Puchinin, Sergey Seliverstov, Vitaly Shkel, Killian Jornet, Artur Hajzer, Andrzej Bargiel, Ilyas Achabaev, Svetlana Sharipova, Anna Figura, Roman Gubanov, Anton Proshchenko, Yuri Klim, Sergey Furstsev , Abdulkhalim Elmezov, Luca Colli, Boris Korshunov, Anindya Mukherjee, Andrew Mariev, Marhan Milan, Valentin Vergilyush Anton Proshchenko Natalia Nikolashina, Mikhail Klimov, Aleksandra (Ola) Dzik, Maria Khitrikova, Oksana Stefanishina, Olga Rzhavsky, Haggai Skopino Ivan Moshnikov Victor Trinozov Tatiana Ufimtseva, Jakub Voytahnio, Marcin Rzheotko Vasily Bakshanov, Anzor Zhurtov, Atilla Kupas, Isabela Zatorska, Marzena Rzeszotko,