23 January 2014, Pyatigorsk was the first city of the North Caucasus to take up the Olympic Torch Relay. The route of the relay was about 15 km and ran from the city railway station to the main city square. Five PSLU representatives (PSLU Rector A.P. Gorbunov, Pro-Rector E.D. Kondrakova, member of the faculty of Physical Education Chair E.A. Puchinyan, Deputy Chief of PSLU Volunteer Center A. Popova and the Institute of International Service, Tourism and Foreign Languages student M.Khadjiev) were among 71 torchbearer who carried the torch in the streets of Pyatigorsk.