Kayakent

Federal district	North Caucasus
republic	Dagestan
Rajon	Kayak skis
population	11,144 inhabitants ; (as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Height of the center	160 m
Time zone	UTC + 3
Telephone code	(+7) 87248
Post Code	368560
License Plate	05
OKATO	82 224 830 001
Geographical location
Coordinates	42 ° 23 ' N , 47 ° 54' E Coordinates: 42 ° 23 '0 " N , 47 ° 54' 0" E
	Location in the western part of Russia
	Location in Dagestan
	List of large settlements in Russia

Kajakent ( Russian Каякент ; Kumyk Къаягент ) is a village (selo) in the Republic of Dagestan in Russia with 11,144 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is located on the eastern edge of the Greater Caucasus about 70 km as the crow flies south-southeast of the republic capital Makhachkala , on the left bank of the Gamriosen River a good 10 km from its confluence with the Caspian Sea .

Kajakent belongs as its largest place to the Rajon Kajakentski and is located about 7 km west of the Rajon administrative center Nowokajakent . The village is the seat of the rural community (selskoje posselenije) Kajakentski selsowet, which also includes the village of Kulkam (5 km northeast).

history

The founding year of the Kumyk village is unknown. After the area was annexed to the Russian Empire and the Dagestan Oblast was founded in 1860, it belonged to its Kaitago-Tabassaranski okrug (" Kaitagish - Tabassaran District") and was the administrative seat of the Nizhne-Kaitagskoje naibstwo (from 1897 utschastok, "Nieder -Kaitagic Section ").

On January 23, 1935, Kajakent became the administrative seat of a newly founded Rajons named after him. In 1957 the administrative headquarters were moved to the town of Isberbasch , 20 km to the north . After the interim dissolution of the Rajon on February 1, 1963 and its restoration on January 12, 1965, the village of Nowokajakent ("New Kajakent"), 7 km east of Kajakent, became the center of the Rajon.

Population development

year	Residents
1886	2,186
1939	3,003
1970	4,291
1979	4,857
2002	11,027
2010	11,144

Note: from 1939 census data

traffic

At the village of Nowokajakent the nearest train station Kajagent (corresponding to the Kumyk spelling of the place name) is at kilometer 2366 of the Rostov-on-Don - Makhachkala - Baku line, which was opened on this section in 1900 and electrified since 1978 . The federal highway R217 Kawkas (formerly M29), which follows the north-eastern edge of the Caucasus from Pavlovskaya in the Krasnodar region to the Azerbaijani border, runs roughly halfway to Novokajakent, a good 3 km east of Kajakent .

Personalities

Ilyas Bekbulatow (* 1990), wrestler
Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin (1744–1774), German physician, botanist and naturalist, buried in Kajakent

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)

[einwohner_aktuell-1] 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)