Terekli-Mekteb
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Terekli-Mekteb
Терекли-Мектеб
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Terekli-Mekteb ( Russian Терекли-Мектеб ) is a place ( Aul , formally Selo, village) in the Russian Republic of Dagestan with 7,993 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The place is located in the northern part of Dagestan, in the middle of the Nogai steppe , a good 70 kilometers from the west coast of the Caspian Sea and almost 200 kilometers as the crow flies northwest of the republic capital Makhachkala .
Terekli-Mekteb is the administrative center of the Nogaiski rajon , one of the main settlement areas of the Nogai people .
history
Terekli-Mekteb was founded during the Russian colonization of the area in 1793 three kilometers south of the existing Nogai-Auls Terekli (today Narimanow) as the seat of a police captain (Karanogaische Polizeihauptmannschaft , Russian pristawstwo ).
In December 1942, Terekli-Mekteb was briefly captured by German troops from Army Group A , but had to be surrendered after a few days. Terekli-Mekteb was one of the most easterly points to which German troops advanced on the territory of the Soviet Union during World War II .
Population development
| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1939 | 779 |
| 1959 | 2025 |
| 1970 | 3567 |
| 1979 | 4308 |
| 1989 | 5327 |
| 2002 | 7285 |
| 2010 | 7993 |
Note: census data
economy
In Terekli-Mekteb there are companies in the food and wood processing industries.
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)
- ↑ M. Bulgarova: Nogajskaja toponimika . Stavropol 1999, p. 242 ( Nogai toponymy ; Russian).
- ↑ Percy Ernst Schramm (Ed.): War diary of the OKW , part volume 4.2, 2nd half of 1942 . S. 842 ff .