Dombai

Urban-type settlement Dombai Dombaй Federal district North Caucasus republic Karachay Cherkessia city Karachayevsk Founded 1921 Urban-type settlement since 1965 population 657 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 1650  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 87822 Post Code 369241 License Plate 09 OKATO 91 405 553 Website dombayinfo.ru/dombai Geographical location Coordinates 43 ° 17 '  N , 41 ° 37'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 17 '24 "  N , 41 ° 37' 26"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Karachay-Cherkessia

Domb a i ( Russian Домбай ) is a winter sports resort with 657 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in the Russian North Caucasus in the republic of Karachay-Cherkessia .

geography

Dombai is an urban-type settlement that, together with the small town of Teberda, 20 kilometers to the north, and two other neighboring villages, is administratively subordinate to the city of Karachayevsk in the center of the republic.

As one of the most southerly places in Karachay-Cherkessia, Dombai is just a few miles from the Russian border with Georgia . The so-called Dombaiwiese, on which the settlement was built, is a valley located between several mountains up to 4000 meters high at around 1650 meters above sea level, where the two rivers Alibek and Dombai-Ulgen flow into the Amanaus , a tributary of the Teberda . The river Dombai-Ulgen, the name of which comes from Karachay and means something like “shot bison ”, gives the valley and the village its name.

history

Dombai was laid out in the early 1920s with the establishment of one of the first hostels in the high mountain region of the Russian North Caucasus and during the Soviet era it developed into a popular resort town that was given the status of an urban-type settlement in 1965.

Population development

year	Residents
1970	847
1979	1730
1989	1601
2002	403
2010	657
2017	643

Note: census data

Economy and Transport

Ski slopes in Dombai

Chairlift in Dombai

Hotel "Flying Saucer"

To this day, Dombai is primarily known as a winter sports resort in large parts of Russia and the former Soviet Union. Tourism is by far the most important source of income for the few inhabitants of Dombai. The place has a well-developed infrastructure for skiers and snowboarders, consisting of several cable cars and chairlifts as well as numerous hotels, hostels and restaurants. The latest cable car route, a 1,600 meter long gondola lift , went into operation at the end of 2007 and has its highest mountain station at 3,200 meters above sea level. Even in summer, Dombai and the surrounding mountain region is a tourist attraction, mainly due to the charming mountain landscape with glaciers, streams, waterfalls, mountain lakes and forests. The landscape in and around Dombai, including the Dombai-Ulgen mountain, forms the Teberda nature reserve, founded in 1935.

As a high mountain town, Dombai can only be reached via the A155 road that ends here , which connects the town to the republic capital Cherkessk via Teberda and Karachayevsk . The next railway connection is in the city of Ust-Dscheguta .

Web links

Commons : Dombai  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official local website (Russian)
• Extract from the TERRUS database (Russian)
• Teberda Nature Reserve website (Russian)
• Dombaj: Inexpensive skiing fun with a Caucasian flair in Russia TODAY

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)