Manas (Russia)

Urban-type settlement Manas Манас Federal district North Caucasus republic Dagestan Rajon Karabudachkentski Earlier names Manaskent (until 2005) Urban-type settlement since 1965 population 5357 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 60  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 87232 Post Code 368545 License Plate 05 OKATO 82 235 556 Geographical location Coordinates 42 ° 44 '  N , 47 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 42 ° 43 '30 "  N , 47 ° 41' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Dagestan

Manas ( Russian Мана́с ) is an urban-type settlement in the Republic of Dagestan in Russia with 5357 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 30 km as the crow flies south-southeast of the republic capital Makhachkala on the eastern edge of the Greater Caucasus , about 3 km from the coast of the Caspian Sea . It is located on the left bank of the Manasosen River ("Manas River").

Manas belongs to the Karabudachkentski Rajon and is located about 10 km east of its administrative center Karabudachkent . It is the seat and only locality of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Possjolok Manas. More than half of the inhabitants are Dargins , a good quarter are Kumyken (in the nearby village of Manaskent , on the other hand, mainly Kumyks live).

history

The place arose in connection with the construction of the Rostov-on-Don  - Baku railway line , after the Manas railway station, which belongs to the village of Manaskent located about 2 km to the northeast, was opened there in 1900 . The station settlement and the village have long been a single place. In 1965 it received urban-type settlement status. In the 1990s the original village became independent; both places, urban-type settlement and village, initially continued to bear the same name Manaskent. On May 25, 2005, the settlement was renamed Manas as part of the administrative reform , adapted to the name of the train station.

Population development

year	Residents
1970	2506
1979	3108
1989	3593
2002	4872
2010	5357

Note: census data

traffic

To the west the settlement is bypassed by the federal highway R217 Kawkas (also part of the European route 119 ), which leads to the Azerbaijani border. At the place the regional road 82K-011 (formerly R280) branches off, which runs over the Rajonzentrum Karabudachkent in an arc through the peripheral area of ​​the Caucasus via Gubden to Sergokala back to the R217 near Perwomaiskoje not far from Isberbasch .

The railway station of the same name is located in Manas at kilometer 2319 (from Moscow ) of the Rostov-on-Don - Makhachkala - Baku line, which opened on this section in 1900 and has been electrified since 1978 .

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)