Komsomolsky (Dagestan)
Urban-type settlement
Komsomolsky
Комсомольский
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Komsomolski ( Russian Комсомо́льский ) is an urban-type settlement in the Republic of Dagestan in Russia with 2723 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The place is about 125 km as the crow flies north-northwest of the republic capital Makhachkala in the Caspian Depression , a good 40 km from the coast of the Caspian Sea . It is located on the right bank of the Talowka, a left branch of the estuary in the Terek river delta .
Komsomolski belongs to the district of Kisljar and is located about 15 km north of the center of the city of Kisljar, surrounded by the territory of Tarumowski rajon . A good half of the settlement's inhabitants are Russians ; Avars (23%) and Darginer (12%, all 2010) predominate among members of Dagestani ethnic groups .
history
The place emerged from the end of the 1950s as a workers' settlement in connection with the construction of the Dagelektroapparat electrotechnical plant . In 1962 it received urban-type settlement status and was named Komsomol in honor of the Soviet Communist youth organization .
Population development
year | Residents |
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1970 | 2135 |
1979 | 2215 |
1989 | 2358 |
2002 | 2567 |
2010 | 2723 |
Note: census data
traffic
In Komsomolsky, the Rasjesd railway station № 17 (" Siding No. 17") is located at km 96 of the railway line from Chervlyonnaja (near Gudermes ) to Astrakhan, which was opened on this section in 1942 . A local road leads along the railway line to Kisljar, where there is a connection to the federal trunk road R215 (part of the European route 119 ) from Astrakhan to Makhachkala.
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)