Kisiljurt

city Kisiljurt Кизилюрт coat of arms Federal district North Caucasus republic Dagestan Urban district Kisiljurt Founded 1963 City since 1963 surface 90  km² population 32,988 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 367 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 50  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 87234 Post Code 368120-368124 License Plate 05 OKATO 82 425 Website http://www.kizilurt.ru/ Geographical location Coordinates 43 ° 12 '  N , 46 ° 52'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 12 '0 "  N , 46 ° 52' 0"  E

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Location in Dagestan

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Kisiljurt ( Russian Кизилюрт ) is a city in the North Caucasian Republic of Dagestan in Russia with 32,988 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located on the northeastern edge of the Greater Caucasus , in the south of the Terek-Sulak plain about 60 km northwest of the republic capital Makhachkala on the right bank of the Sulak .

Kisiljurt is administratively directly subordinate to the republic and at the same time the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name . The urban-type settlements Nowy Sulak (5,440 inhabitants) and Bawtugai (5,234 inhabitants) as well as the village of Stary Bawtugai (2,045 inhabitants) are directly subordinate to the city, so that the total population of the administrative unit city ​​of Kisiljurt is 47,096 (2009 calculation).

The city is located on the main line of the North Caucasus Railway, which was opened on this section in 1894, from Rostov-on-Don- Makhachkala- Baku (route km 2228 from Moscow ). A route branches off here to Kisljar , where there is a connection to Astrakhan . The almost 80 kilometer long Kisiljurt – Kisljar section was created to bypass Chechnya during the Second Chechen War around the year 2000. The M29 Rostov-on-Don – Azerbaijani border also runs through Kisiljurt .

history

Kisiljurt received town charter in 1963 when the workers' settlement of the same name was merged with the Bawtugai and Sulak settlements for administrative purposes. The name stands in Kumyk for red settlement , whereby " red " has ideological meaning here.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	3,892
1970	13,111
1979	21,715
1989	33,682
2002	30,264
2010	32,988

Note: census data

economy

In the city there is an electrotechnical and a chemical plant ( phosphoric acid and salts) as well as companies in the building materials industry.

Kisiljurt is the center of an agricultural area with irrigation, viticulture and sheep breeding.

The Tschirjurt dam complex lies on the Sulak above the city .

sons and daughters of the town

• Jawid Gamsatow (* 1989), Belarusian wrestler of Russian-Dagestan origin
• Mansur Mustafajewitsch Issajew (* 1986), Russian judoka

Web links

• Unofficial city portal (Russian)
• Kisiljurt on mojgorod.ru (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)