Taneyev, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Sergei Prokofiev; the singer Feodor Chaliapin; and the theatrical figures Maria Savina, Vera Komissarzhevskaya and Konstantin Stanislavsky. Boris Petrovsky, a well-known surgeon and long-term Soviet health minister, was a native of Yessentuki. References Notes Sources Cities and towns in Stavropol Krai Spa towns in Russia Populated places established in 1825