Karata

This article describes the Russian town of Karata; for the Japanese actress, see Erika Karata .

Village Karata Карата ( Russian ) Кӏкӏаратӏа ( Avar ) Federal district North Caucasus republic Dagestan Rajon Achwachski population 4153 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 1450  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 87 250 Post Code 368990 License Plate 05 OKATO 82 205 830 001 Geographical location Coordinates 42 ° 36 '  N , 46 ° 21'  E Coordinates: 42 ° 35 '45 "  N , 46 ° 20' 30"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Dagestan

Karata ( Russian Карата , Avar Кӏкӏаратӏа ) is a village (selo) in the Republic of Dagestan in Russia with 4153 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 100 km as the crow flies southwest of the republic capital Makhachkala and a good 20 km from the border with the Chechnya republic in the eastern part of the Great Caucus . It is located high above the left bank of the Achwach, a left tributary of the Andijskoje Koisu , into which it flows almost 10 km to the northwest.

Karata is the administrative center of Achwachski Rajons and the seat of the rural community (selskoje posselenije) Karatinski selsowet, which also includes the village of Ratschabulda, 4 km to the northwest. In fact, the entire population is made up of Avars . Most of them belong to the sub-ethnic group of the Karatins, which, like the Karatin (one of the Andean languages ), some of which they still speak , is named after the place.

history

The well-known since the Middle Ages place was after the annexation of the territory of the Russian Empire and the formation of the Oblast Dagestan in 1860 the administrative seat of the seven (later eight) administrative sections of Andischem Okrug ( okrug Andijski, based in the 15 km northwest located Botlikh ). In 1933 Karata became the administrative seat of the newly created Achwachski rajon, named after the river and the Avar sub-ethnic group of the Achwach people who also settled there.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	998
1939	1613
1959	2030
1970	2359
1979	2555
1989	2591
2002	4519
2010	4153

Note: census data

traffic

The 17 km long regional road 82K-028 leads to Karata from the neighboring Rajonzentrum Botlich to the northwest, where it branches off from the 82K-008, which connects to Buinaksk  - Makhachkala and to the Chechen border towards Grozny .

Sons and daughters of the place

• Maschidat Gairbekowa (1927-2015), poet

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)