# Mount Azov

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**Azov** (Russian: Азов) is a mountain in [Central Ural](/source/Central_Ural), [Russia](/source/Russia). It is located 8 km from [Polevskoy](/source/Polevskoy) meat [Zyuzelsky](/source/Zyuzelsky) village. It's one of the [natural monuments](/source/Natural_monument) of Russia.[1]

According to [Aleksandr Matveyev](/source/Aleksandr_Matveyev_(linguist)), the configuration of the rocks gives a reason to believe that the name of the mountain derives from the [Tatar](/source/Tatar_language) word *azaw teš* (азау теш), meaning '[molar tooth](/source/Molar_tooth)'. In other [Turkic languages](/source/Turkic_languages) the word means 'fang', 'edge', or 'sting'.[2] The archaeologist E. Bers believed that in the [Iron Age](/source/Iron_Age) it served as a sacrificial place.

According to popular beliefs, a creature from local folktales called [Azovka](/source/Azovka) (lit. 'the Azov girl') lives inside Mount Azov.[3]

## References

1. [Об утверждении перечней особо охраняемых природных территорий, расположенных в Свердловской области](http://docs.cntd.ru/document/801104370)

1. Матвеев А. К. Географические названия Урала: Топонимический словарь. — Екатеринбург: Сократ, 2008. — С. 10. — 352 с. — ISBN 978-5-88664-299-5.

1. Blazhes, Valentin (1983). ["Рабочие предания родины П. П. Бажова"](http://elar.urfu.ru/bitstream/10995/19386/1/fu7-1983-02.pdf). *Bytovanie folklora v sovremennosti, na materiale jekspedicij 60-80 godov* (in Russian). Vol. 7. Фольклор Урала. Sverdlovsk: [The Ural State University](/source/The_Ural_State_University). p. 7.

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