Beschta

Village Beschta Бежта ( Russian ) БежтІа ( Avar ) Federal district North Caucasus republic Dagestan Rajon Zuntinski population 3502 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 1600  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 87274 Post Code 368410 License Plate 05 OKATO 82 258 810 001 Geographical location Coordinates 42 ° 8 '  N , 46 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 42 ° 8 '0 "  N , 46 ° 7' 30"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Dagestan

Beschta ( Russian Бежта́ , Avar БежтІа ) is a village (selo) in the Republic of Dagestan in Russia with 3502 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is just 150 km as the crow flies southwest of the republic capital Makhachkala and a good 10 km from the state border with Georgia in the eastern part of the Greater Caucasus , immediately surrounded by mountains over 3000  m high. It is located on Chsanor (also Chsan-or ), a left tributary of the Avarskoye Koisu .

Beschta is by far the largest village in the Zuntinski district and is located about 15 km southeast of the administrative center of Kidero . It is the administrative center of the Beschtinski utschastok ( "Beschtaer section"), one in Russia today unique municipal administration unit on the plain between Rajon and municipalities, as well as the seat of the rural community (selskoje posselenije) Selo Beschta . On September 26, 2013, three more independent villages were expelled within the municipality: Balakuri, Issoo and Schamod, previously districts of Beschta.

The place is predominantly inhabited by Bestiners , some of whom still speak Beshtinic , one of the Didoic languages , and are mostly considered a sub-ethnic group of the Avars .

history

The well-known since the Middle Ages it belonged after connecting the region to the Russian Empire and the creation of Oblast Dagestan to Okrug Gunib , and within, the southernmost section (utschastok) km eastern based in 20 Tljarata .

On December 25, 1930, Beschta joined the Zuntinski rajon, which was newly spun off from the Zumadinski rajon and was initially based in Kidero, and from 1935 in the village of Shauri further north . On 20 May 1944, the Raion was disbanded in the meantime and its territory again part of Zumadinski rayon based in nearly 50 km to the north at Andi Koysu located Agwali . On November 15, 1955, the Rajon was re-established, now with its seat in Beschta. In 1992 the district administration was relocated to the original location, to Kidero, but at the same time the Beshtinski utschastok with its seat in Beshta was created.

In February 2004, during the Second Chechnya War , fighting broke out between Russian border troops and Chechen militants near Beshta, in the course of which field commander Ruslan Gelayev, who had previously been in command of the Chechen separatist forces at times, was killed.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	1284
1959	1643
1970	2627
1979	3064
1989	3117
2002	3731
2010	3502

Note: census data

traffic

Beschta is located on the regional road 82K-031, which leads from the village of Tljadal the Chsanor, 10 km to the east, to Kidero. In Tljadal there is a connection to the 82K-010, which connects the central part of the republic near Gunib, initially along the Avarskoje Koisu via Chebda with the 2,441  m high Wantljaschewski Pass over the main Caucasus ridge on the border with Georgia (the section from Tljadal to the pass is still under construction or planned); The 82N-002 runs from Kidero to the neighboring district of Agwali in the north.

Web links

• Official website of the Beshtinsky Uchastok Administration (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)