Buinaksk
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Buinaksk
Буйнакск
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List of cities in Russia |
Buinaksk ( Russian Буйнакск ) is a city and district center with 62,623 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in the autonomous republic of Dagestan in southern Russia .
location
It is located on the foothills of the Greater Caucasus , 41 km southwest of the republic capital Makhachkala , with which it is connected by a regional road and a railway line. Other nearby cities are Kaspiysk (42 km east) and Kisiljurt (47 km northwest).
history
From the 14th century to the founding of the Soviet Union
Originally Buinaksk was called Temir-Chan-Shura (Темир-Хан-Шура) after the conqueror Timur- Khan (Middle Turk. Temür ), who, according to legend, made a stopover here in the 14th century during the campaign against the Golden Horde and held a consultation ( Shura ) should have held. The place was formed in the following years and was 1578-1640 residence of the Dagestani rulers of the shame bowl . Temir-Chan-Shura was founded as a military fortress of the Russian Empire in 1834 and initially served to secure an important road crossing point in front of the mountains of the Caucasus .
In the 1840s, the fortress was able to withstand attacks by the hill tribes several times. In 1866 it received city rights and developed into an important cultural center of Dagestan.
From 1918 to 1991
In 1920 the autonomy of the former province of Dagestan was proclaimed here and the Dagestan ASSR was founded. In 1922 the city received its current name in honor of the revolutionary Ullubi Buinakski (1890-1919). After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the entire Caucasus region remained in the newly founded Republic of Russia .
Fighting in the 1990s
On December 22, 1997, around 100 Chechen rebels attacked the village of Gerlakh near Buinaksk, killing three people and injuring 13. In the series of attacks from 1999 Buynaksk came again affected, as on 4 September before a military-house, a car bomb detonated and ripped 64 people to their deaths; another 164 people suffered injuries.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1897 | 9.214 |
1939 | 22,081 |
1959 | 32,956 |
1970 | 37,946 |
1979 | 46,566 |
1989 | 56,783 |
2002 | 61,437 |
2010 | 62,623 |
Note: census data
economy
There are a number of industrial establishments in the city, including an aggregate plant, textile, food and furniture factories.
Education and culture
- Dagestani Sajfulla Kadi Islam Institute
- Branch of the Dagestani State University
- Branch of the Moscow Institute of Entrepreneurship and Law
sons and daughters of the town
- Riswan Kurbanow (* 1961), politician and legal scholar
- Gadschi Magomedowitsch Umarow (* 1985), Taekwondoin
Web links
- Unofficial web portal of the city (Russian)
- Buinaksk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
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)
- ↑ Segodnja.ru, September 22, 2000 ( Memento of March 19, 2001 in the Internet Archive )