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Village Unzukul Унцукуль ( Russian ) Унсоколо ( Avar ) Federal district North Caucasus republic Dagestan Rajon Unzukulski population 6,274 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 850  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 87257 Post Code 368940 License Plate 05 OKATO 82 253 840 001 Geographical location Coordinates 42 ° 43 '  N , 46 ° 47'  E Coordinates: 42 ° 42 '45 "  N , 46 ° 47' 15"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Dagestan

Unzukul ( Russian Унцуку́ль , Avar Унсоколо ) is a village (selo) in the Republic of Dagestan in Russia with 6,274 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

View over Unzukul to the Irganai reservoir of Avarskoye Koisu

The place is a good 60 km as the crow flies southwest of the republic capital Makhachkala in the north-eastern part of the Greater Caucasus . It is located high above the left bank of the Avarskoye Koisu River, which is dammed a few kilometers upstream to the Irganai Reservoir.

Unzukul is the administrative center of Unzukulski Rajons and the seat of the rural community (selskoje posselenije) Unzukulski selsowet, which also includes the village of Chintlimita, 8 km southeast not far from the independent settlement of Shamilkala . The village is almost exclusively inhabited by Avars .

history

The village has been known since the 17th century and was one of the centers of a de facto independent Avar village community in the Avarskoye Koisu valley until the Caucasus War , when Russian rule over the region was consolidated. From the second half of the 19th century, it was the seat of one of the four subdivisions of the Avar Okrug (Awarski okrug) of Dagestan Oblast . On January 23, 1935, Unzukul became the administrative seat of the newly created Rajons named after him.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	2606
1959	2636
1970	3284
1979	3507
1989	3879
2002	5523
2010	6274

Note: census data

traffic

Unzukul is on the regional road 82K-023, which leads from the valley of the Avarskoje Koisu past Shamilkala and the dam of the Irganai reservoir in a north-easterly direction into the valley of the Andijskoje Koisu . In a north-easterly direction at the village of Gimry there is a connection to the 82K-038, which since the opening of the 4.3-kilometer-long Gimrinski tunnel for regular operation in 2012 has provided a new direct connection to the town of Buinaksk , 30 kilometers to the north-east , from there on towards Makhachkala . Buinaksk is also where the nearest train station is located, the end of a branch line from Shamchal near Makhachkala.

Sons and daughters of the place

• Magomed-Ali Dachadayev (1882–1918), revolutionary

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)