Balachani

Federal district	North Caucasus
republic	Dagestan
Rajon	Ungulatory
Height of the center	900 m
Ethnic composition	Avars
Composition according to religions	Muslims ( Sunnis )
Time zone	UTC + 3
Post Code	368945
License Plate	05
OKATO	82 253 815 001
Geographical location
Coordinates	42 ° 38 ' N , 46 ° 54' E Coordinates: 42 ° 37 '58 " N , 46 ° 53' 30" E
	Location in the western part of Russia
	Location in Dagestan

Balachani ( Russian Балахани ) is a village (selo) in the Russian Republic of Dagestan , in Unzukul district .

It is located in the foothills of the main ridge of the Greater Caucasus , which rises a little southwest of the place with the Arakmeer mountain up to 2356 m above sea level. The village is located in a high valley above the river Avarskoje Koisu , the right source river of the Sulak , a good 60 kilometers as the crow flies southwest of the republic capital Makhachkala and 12 kilometers southeast of the Unzukul Rajon center . It is inhabited by Avars . At the beginning of 2011 the village had around a thousand inhabitants.

The rural community (selskoje posselenije) Selsowet Balachanski with its administrative seat in Balachani also includes the small villages Moksoch (7 km northwest) and Schulatuta. The community has a total of 2383 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

The village has a school.

One of the two suicide bombers in the 2010 Moscow Metro attacks , Mariam Sharipova, came from Balachani.

Individual evidence

↑ Soviet General Staff Map 1: 100,000. Sheet K-38-58 (edition 1984)
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Klaus-Helge Donath: The home of the black widows. In: the daily newspaper . January 31, 2011, accessed January 31, 2011 .
↑ OKATO
↑ 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)

[map-1] Soviet General Staff Map 1: 100,000. Sheet K-38-58 (edition 1984)

[Witwe-2] Klaus-Helge Donath: The home of the black widows. In: the daily newspaper . January 31, 2011, accessed January 31, 2011 .

[3] OKATO

[4] 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)