Shamchal (place)

Urban-type settlement Schamchal Шамхал Federal district North Caucasus republic Dagestan Urban district Makhachkala Urban-type settlement since 1965 population 11,855 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 10  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 8722 Post Code 367912 License Plate 05 OKATO 82 401 689 Geographical location Coordinates 43 ° 3 '  N , 47 ° 20'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 3 '30 "  N , 47 ° 20' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Dagestan

List of large settlements in Russia

Shamchal ( Russian Шамха́л ) is an urban-type settlement in the Republic of Dagestan ( Russia ) with 11,855 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

Shamchal is located almost 20 km northwest of the center of the Dagestani capital Makhachkala on the edge of the coastal plain of the Caspian Sea , which gradually rises southwest of the settlement to the foothills of the Greater Caucasus , a good 10 km from its coast. The place is mainly on the left bank of the river Schuraosen .

The settlement is part of the urban district of Makhachkala and the management of the Rajons Kirowski, one of the three administrative districts of the city, assumed.

More than half of the town's inhabitants are Avars , and a good quarter are Kumyken .

history

The settlement was built at the beginning of the 20th century around a station on the Rostov-on-Don  - Baku railway line, which opened in 1894 to Port-Petrovsk, today's Makhachkala . In 1965 Shamchal received urban-type settlement status.

Population development

year	Residents
1970	3,099
1979	4,359
1989	5,390
2002	7,823
2010	11,855

Note: census data

traffic

Shamchal is located on the Rostov-on-Don - Makhachkala - Baku railway line, which has been electrified on this section since 1977 (route km 2269 from Moscow ). There a branch line opened in 1916, today without passenger traffic, branches off to Buinaksk , 40 km away .

The R217 Kawkas highway (formerly M29, also part of European route 119 ), which runs along the northern edge of the Caucasus and the coast of the Caspian Sea towards Azerbaijan, runs about six kilometers southwest of Shamchal . Shamchal is connected to this via a road past the neighboring settlement of Schamchal-Termen . After Makhachkala, a road runs along the railway line.

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)