Chunsach

Village Chunsach Хунзах ( Russian ) Хунзахъ ( Avar ) Federal district North Caucasus republic Dagestan Rajon Chunsachski population 4245 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 1650  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 87233 Post Code 368260 License Plate 05 OKATO 82 256 890 001 Geographical location Coordinates 42 ° 33 '  N , 46 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 42 ° 32 '30 "  N , 46 ° 42' 30"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Dagestan

Chunsach ( Russian Хунзах , Avar Хунзахъ ) is a village (selo) in the Republic of Dagestan in Russia with 4245 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

View of Chunsach

The place is about 80 km as the crow flies southwest of the republic capital Makhachkala on the Chunsach plateau, a plateau in the eastern part of the Greater Caucasus . It is located on the edge of a canyon formed by the Tobot-Zolotl river, which flows into the Avarskoye Koisu about 7 km southeast .

Chunsach is the administrative center of the Chunsachski Rajons and the seat of the rural community (selskoje posselenije) Chunsachski selsowet, which also includes the villages of Arani (2 km northeast), Baitl (3 km west), Chini (2 km south), Genitschutl (4 km northeast), Gonoch (3 km northwest), Nakitl (6 km southwest), Saib (6 km south on Avarskoye Koisu) and Tschondotl (4 km west) belong. The village is in fact only inhabited by Avars .

history

Known since the Middle Ages, it was the capital of the mostly independent Avar Khanate from the 12th to 19th centuries . In the 19th century - after first attempts from 1802 and finally with the Russian victory in the Caucasus War from 1817 to 1864 - the area became part of the Russian Empire . Chunsach was the administrative seat of the Avar Okrug (Awarski okrug) of the Dagestan Oblast, which was formed in 1860 .

As part of the administrative restructuring of the Dagestani ASSR founded in 1921 , Chunsach became the seat of a canton named after him on November 22, 1928, which was converted into a Rajon on June 3, 1929.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	1587
1939	2151
1959	1972
1970	2372
1979	2332
1989	2901
2002	3694
2010	4245

Note: census data

traffic

A few kilometers northeast of Chunsach runs the regional road 82K-008, which leads from the valley of the Avarskoje Koisu near Arakani (there is a connection in the direction of Buinaksk  - Makhachkala) via the neighboring Rajon center of Botlich to the Chechen border (from there in the direction of Shali  - Grozny ). In Buinaksk, the nearest train station is just 50 km away as the crow flies.

There is a small airfield on the regional road northeast of Chunsach, which has been formally out of service since the 1990s.

Web links

• Official website of the district 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)