Buinaksk

city Buinaksk Буйнакск coat of arms Federal district North Caucasus republic Dagestan Urban district Buinaksk mayor Gussein Gamsatow Founded 1834 Earlier names Temir-chan-Shura City since 1866 surface 21  km² population 62,623 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 2982 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 490  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 87237 Post Code 36822x License Plate 05 OKATO 82 405 Geographical location Coordinates 42 ° 49 '  N , 47 ° 7'  E Coordinates: 42 ° 49 '0 "  N , 47 ° 7' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Dagestan

List of cities in Russia

Winter in 2016 in Buinaksk

Buinaksk ( Russian Буйнакск ) is a city and district center with 62,623 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in the autonomous republic of Dagestan in southern Russia .

location

It is located on the foothills of the Greater Caucasus , 41 km southwest of the republic capital Makhachkala , with which it is connected by a regional road and a railway line. Other nearby cities are Kaspiysk (42 km east) and Kisiljurt (47 km northwest).

history

Postcard from Temir-Chan-Shura / Bujnaksk from 1917

From the 14th century to the founding of the Soviet Union

Originally Buinaksk was called Temir-Chan-Shura (Темир-Хан-Шура) after the conqueror Timur- Khan (Middle Turk. Temür ), who, according to legend, made a stopover here in the 14th century during the campaign against the Golden Horde and held a consultation ( Shura ) should have held. The place was formed in the following years and was 1578-1640 residence of the Dagestani rulers of the shame bowl . Temir-Chan-Shura was founded as a military fortress of the Russian Empire in 1834 and initially served to secure an important road crossing point in front of the mountains of the Caucasus .

In the 1840s, the fortress was able to withstand attacks by the hill tribes several times. In 1866 it received city rights and developed into an important cultural center of Dagestan.

From 1918 to 1991

In 1920 the autonomy of the former province of Dagestan was proclaimed here and the Dagestan ASSR was founded. In 1922 the city received its current name in honor of the revolutionary Ullubi Buinakski (1890-1919). After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the entire Caucasus region remained in the newly founded Republic of Russia .

Fighting in the 1990s

On December 22, 1997, around 100 Chechen rebels attacked the village of Gerlakh near Buinaksk, killing three people and injuring 13. In the series of attacks from 1999 Buynaksk came again affected, as on 4 September before a military-house, a car bomb detonated and ripped 64 people to their deaths; another 164 people suffered injuries.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	9.214
1939	22,081
1959	32,956
1970	37,946
1979	46,566
1989	56,783
2002	61,437
2010	62,623

Note: census data

economy

There are a number of industrial establishments in the city, including an aggregate plant, textile, food and furniture factories.

Education and culture

• Dagestani Sajfulla Kadi Islam Institute
• Branch of the Dagestani State University
• Branch of the Moscow Institute of Entrepreneurship and Law

sons and daughters of the town

• Riswan Kurbanow (* 1961), politician and legal scholar
• Gadschi Magomedowitsch Umarow (* 1985), Taekwondoin

Web links

Commons : Buinaksk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Unofficial web portal of the city (Russian)
• Buinaksk on mojgorod.ru (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)
2. ↑ Segodnja.ru, September 22, 2000 ( Memento of March 19, 2001 in the Internet Archive )