Gunib
Village
Gunib
Гуниб
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Gunib ( Russian Гуниб ) is a village ( Aul , officially Selo ) in Gunibsky Raion of the North Caucasian Republic of Dagestan in the Russian Federation . It has 2271 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
Gunib is located at the foot of a plateau, also called Gunib Mountain , at a distance of 172 kilometers from the republic capital Makhachkala at an altitude of about 1500 meters above sea level.
The hydroelectric power station of the same name on the Karakoisu River can be seen from the village .
Gunib from the direction of Keger (around 1860)
Photograph of the Arakani by Sergei Prokudin-Gorski (1904)
Painting of Auls Gunib by Iwan Aivazovsky (1869)
history
The natural fortress that the plateau above Gunib offers was the last place of retreat of Imam Shamil during the Caucasus War . Only on August 25, 1859, the fortress was stormed by the Russian troops .
Gunib received numerous mentions in literature and painting; these include the well-known pictures by Aivazovsky . The writer Alissa Ganijewa comes from Gunib; some of their stories take place here.
- Population development
year | Residents |
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1897 | 685 |
1939 | 833 |
1959 | 1669 |
1970 | 1908 |
1979 | 1980 |
1989 | 2405 |
2002 | 2406 |
2010 | 2271 |
Note: census data
economy
Gunib is considered a mountain air health resort ; There is a hotel on the main square of the village. On the plateau above the village there is a holiday camp as well as holiday apartments and a botanical garden .
Sons and daughters of Gunib
- Olga Forsch (1873–1961), Russian writer and communist
- Artschil Kereselidze (1912–1971), Soviet-Georgian composer
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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)