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4 unusual facts about Dagestan


Dagestan

In the 5th century AD, the Samian peregrinations took place from Ukraine to this land, they returned to their natal country by 150 BC.

Notable are also the Hunzib or Khunzal people who live in only four towns in the interior.

Islam in Russia

The first Muslims within current Russian territory were the Dagestani people (region of Derbent) after the Arab conquests in the 8th century.

Rutul

Rutul (rural locality), a rural locality (a selo) in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia


2000 Baku earthquake

The earthquake was felt as far away as e.g. Tbilisi, 600 km north west of the epicentre, Makhachkala (up to magnitude 4) and the Karabudakh and Isberbas settlements in Dagestan (up to 5).

2297 Daghestan

It is aptly named after the Dagestan ASSR, the regional government of Dagestan during the former Soviet Union.

Aghul

Aghul people, people of the Caucasus from southern Dagestan and northern Azerbaijan

Andi people

The Andis (къӀваннал in Andi, андийцы in Russian) are one of the indigenous Dagestanian peoples of Russia.

Andriy Yarmolenko

In 2013 Andriy Yarmolenko became the highest scoring foreign born player for the Ukraine national football team surpassing Tymerlan Huseynov, a native of Dagestan, (Russian Federation).

Archi people

The Archi (аршишттиб in Archi, арчинцы in Russian) are an ethnic group who live in eight villages in Southern Dagestan, Russia.

Botlikh

Botlikh people, one of the people of the Republic of Dagestan, Russia

Caspian race

The phenotype is prevalent to the following ethnicities:Laks, Rutuls, Tabasarans and Tsakhurs.

Dagestan Airlines Flight 372

One of the two dead was Gadzhimurad Magomedov, the brother of Magomedsalam Magomedov, the president of Dagestan.

Duchy of Racha

The rival noble clans, especially Tsulukidze and Tsereteli, attempted to counter the move by invoking a force of Ottoman and Dagestan mercenaries, only to be routed by the royal army in 1786.

Eduard Puterbrot

«The artist viewed all the landscape of mountainous country surrounding him from the childhood as a huge theater stage. Dagestan nourished his art work constantly.» As evaluated by the art critic, Puterbrot had refuted the known formula by Rudyard Kipling (from The Ballad of East and West) "East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet".

Islamic Djamaat of Dagestan

According to Robert Bruce Ware, a leading specialist on Dagestan, the apartment bombings were likely perpetrated by the Dagestani Wahhabists as a retribution for the federal attack on the Islamic Djamaat.

Kubachi

Kubachi language, a language spoken in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia

Lakia

In the 15th century with the decline of Golden Horde's influence in the North Caucasus, shamkhal of Gazi-Kumukh asserted his authority in the northern Dagestan and in the south opposed the territorial expansion of Iran, Shirvan and Georgia.

Liberation Army of Dagestan

The caller identified himself as a member of the Army of the Liberation of Dagestan and claimed that it was responsible for the explosion at Manezhnaya Square in Moscow on 31 August 1999.

Marina Skugareva

She is the daughter of journalist Olga Garitskaya and architect Vadim Skugarev, who was the head of a chair of decorative and applied arts (graphic arts dept.) at the Dagestan state teacher training institute (Makhachkala, Dagestan ASSR) since 1973.

Mozdok–Makhachkala–Kazi Magomed pipeline

The Mozdok–Makhachkala–Kazi Magomed pipeline is a natural gas pipeline from Mozdok in North Ossetia through Chechnya and Dagestan to Azerbaijan.

Nyugdi

Nyugdi, Russia, a rural locality (a selo) in Derbentsky District of the Republic of Dagestan, Russia

Patriots of Russia

Until 2011, the party had fractions in regional parliaments: the Kaliningrad region, Yaroslavl region, Republic of Dagestan, in the city of Kemerovo.

Rappani Khalilov

Khalilov first became well known after the January 18, 2002, bombing of a Russian military truck, which killed seven Interior Ministry soldiers in the capital of Dagestan, Makhachkala.

Ruslan Vyacheslavovich Kurbanov

In 2011 was included in the list of candidates to Russian State Duma from Dagestani regional public organization “Dagestan civil union” along with other candidates like Ramazan Abdulatipov, Sergey Reshulsky etc.

Rutul

Rutul people, an ethnic group in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia

Sabir people

The Sabir lived predominantly in the region of Azerbaijan (see Sabir, Azerbaijan) and Dagestan bounded on the east by the Caspian Sea, on the west by the Caucasus Mountains.

Şahtaxtı

Zarifa Aliyeva — ophthalmologist, academician of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, professor; daughter of the People's Commissar of Health of Azerbaijan SSR, First Secretary of the Dagestan Regional Committee of the Communist Party, Aziz Aliyev, wife of the President of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev and the mother of the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.

Salau Aliyev

Aliyev believes that the Kumyks are descended from the medieval Khazars and cites the Khazar Khaganate and the later Shamkhalate of Tarki as inspiring his vision of a Kumyk-dominated, independent Dagestan.

Sarir

Sarir or Serir was a medieval Christian state lasting from the 5th century to the 12th century in the mountainous regions of modern-day Dagestan.

Shamkhal

Shamkhal, Russia, an urban-type settlement in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia

Tabasaran

Tabasaran Principality, a state in Dagestan that existed from 1642 until the 19th century

Wilayah

In the Tsez language, the districts of Dagestan are also referred to as "вилайат" (wilayat), plural "вилайатйоби" (wilayatyobi).

Yagutil Mishiev

Soon, scholars of Dagestan, the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences started to inquire on various issues related to the museum.

Youth unemployment

In 2005, the area around Moscow had an unemployment rate of just 1 percent while the Dagestan region had a rate over 22 percent.


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