Mountain Rally - a small hill on the western outskirts of Beshtau, which is located in the city of Pyatigorsk. Much of the mountain is located on the left bank of the river Podkumok. The absolute height of the mountain range - 565 m, and the relative - up to 40 m. The area of ​​the mountain more than 140 hectares.

The name of the hill where now stands the Mount Picket, suggests previously placed on its top Cossack picket (at the turn of the 18-19 st.), Who led the observation of the surroundings. Thus he picket hitherto not found. On the slopes of the mound was found two - archaeological remains of the early period. Voronki found during excavations of burial mounds, evidence of their plunder before the time they were discovered by scientists. Therefore, all the contents of the graves are found in these mounds, lost without a trace.

To the north of the mountain is located Picket Krasnoslobodskoe cemetery, which in the second half of the twentieth century. It was the main cemetery of the city. The cemetery has several names, namely settlement Konstantinogorskaya, Kvartalskoe and Novopyatigorskoe.

Universal Mount Picket gained notoriety in 1976 after it became a place of national literary festival - Shukshin. On the eastern side Piket Fedulovka flowing river, a tributary of the Katun River, and on the south side of the Katun flows.

From the top of Mount Picket, opens a bright panorama of the foothills, the Katun River floodplain, as can be seen from this mountain and Babyrgan Monakhova. These magnificent and memorable places often mentioned in literary and cinematic works of the writer VM Shukshin.