Mamedkala

Urban-type settlement Mamedkala Мамедкала Federal district North Caucasus republic Dagestan Rajon Derbentski Earlier names Mamed-Kala Urban-type settlement since 1965 population 11,029 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 30  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 87240 Post Code 368621 License Plate 05 OKATO 82 220 562 Geographical location Coordinates 42 ° 10 ′  N , 48 ° 8 ′  E Coordinates: 42 ° 10 ′ 0 ″  N , 48 ° 8 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Dagestan

List of large settlements in Russia

Mamedkala ( Russian Мамедкала́ ) is an urban-type settlement in the Republic of Dagestan ( Russia ) with 11,029 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located a good 100 km south-southeast of the republic capital Makhachkala at the eastern foot of the Greater Caucasus , 10 km northwest of the city of Dagestanskije Ogni and about 8 km from the coast of the Caspian Sea .

Mamedkala belongs to the Derbentski Rajon and is located about 20 km northwest of its administrative center Derbent . It is the seat and only place of the municipality of the same name (gorodskoje posselenije). About a third of the residents are Dargins , almost a quarter each of Azerbaijanis and Tabassarans , about 7% are Agulians .

history

The town received in 1965 the status of an urban-type settlement, as the villages Mamedkala (old spelling Mamed-Kala ), Michailowka (with the colony by the state farm Mikhailovsky) Tumajewka and Duslak and the settlements during Aliyev-state farm and to the train station Mamedkala together were .

Population development

year	Residents
1970	5.107
1979	5,928
1989	6,000
2002	8,374
2010	11,029

Note: census data

Infrastructure

Mamedkala is located on the Rostov-on-Don  - Makhachkala - Baku railway line, which opened on this section in 1900 and has been electrified since 1973 (station name Mamed-Kala, line kilometers 2394 from Moscow ). The federal highway R217 Kawkas (formerly M29) passes to the west of the place, which also leads along the northern edge of the Caucasus to the Azerbaijani border. Not far from Mamedkala branches off the 146 km long regional road 82K-013, which leads to the Rajon administrative centers of Madschalis , Urkarach , Akuscha and Levaschi in the mountainous part of Dagestan .

The almost 100 km long Samur Derbent irrigation canal, built in the 1950s and leading from the Samur River via Derbent to the northern part of the Rajon, runs through the settlement .

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)