Babajurt

Village Babajurt Бабаюрт Federal district North Caucasus republic Dagestan Rajon Babajurtovsky Founded 1821 Earlier names Magometov Most population 15,227 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 0  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 87247 Post Code 368060 License Plate 05 OKATO 82 207 000 001 Geographical location Coordinates 43 ° 36 '  N , 46 ° 47'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 36 '0 "  N , 46 ° 46' 30"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Dagestan

List of large settlements in Russia

Babajurt ( Russian and Kumyk Бабаю́рт ) is a village (selo) in the Republic of Dagestan in Russia with 15,227 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 90 km as the crow flies northwest of the republic capital Makhachkala in the Kumyk Plain (Kumykskaja ploskost), which stretches between the Terek and Sulak rivers in the northeastern foreland of the Greater Caucasus on the west coast of the Caspian Sea . The river Aksai runs about two kilometers south of Babajurt , whose water, like that of the southern Aktash in the eastern part of the Rajon, is directed to Sulak via irrigation channels.

Babajurt is the administrative center of the Rajons Babajurtowski and seat and only town in the rural community (selskoje posselenije) Selo Babajurt. Nearly two-thirds of the population belong to the ethnic group of Kumyks , others larger groups (over 10%) are Avars and Nogay .

history

The village goes back to the Russian military post Magometow Most (Russian for " Mohammed Bridge"), which was built during the Caucasus War in 1821 during the "Caucasus Line " and was built not far from a Kumyk village of the same name. Around the middle of the 19th century, the current name, which goes back to the names of two older villages in the area, became common.

Since November 22, 1928, the village has been the administrative seat of a Rajons (initially until 1929 as "Canton").

Population development

year	Residents
1939	1,869
1959	4,919
1970	7.104
1979	8,046
1989	12,737
2002	12,943
2010	15,227

Note: census data

traffic

Babajurt is located on the federal highway R215 , which connects Astrakhan via Kisljar with Makhachkala (also part of the European route 119 ). In Babajurt the regional road 82A-003 (formerly R279) branches off to Khassavyurt .

To the west of the village is the Babayurt station at kilometer 33 of the Kislyar - Kisiljurt railway line , which opened on September 11, 1997 and was built from 1995 to restore the connection between Astrakhan and Makhachkala , which was interrupted by the First Chechen War, bypassing Chechnya .

Web links

• Official website of the Babajurtowski rajon (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)