Urkarach
Village
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Urkarach ( Russian Уркара́х , Dargin Уркухъла ) is a village (selo) in the Republic of Dagestan in Russia with 4,394 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The place is about 90 km as the crow flies south of the republic capital Makhachkala in the eastern part of the Greater Caucasus on the Artusen River in the Ulluchai river system .
Urkarach is the administrative center of the Dachadajewski rajon and the seat of the rural community (selskoje posselenije) Urkarachski selsowet. The municipality also includes the village of Novy Urkarach ("New Urkarach"), which is inhabited by resettlers from the Dachadajewski rajon and is located 50 km east on the territory of the Derbentski rajon , immediately northeast of the city of Dagestansky Ogni . The place is almost exclusively inhabited by Darginers .
history
The place, known since the Middle Ages, was the capital of a Kaitak local principality until the founding of the Madschalis, which is almost 20 km to the east (Kaitaken, also Kaitager, are a subgroup of the Dargins ). After connecting the region to the Russian Empire Urkarach was in the second half of the 19th century seat of one of the four administrative sections of Kaitakisch- tabassaranischen okrugs ( Kaitago-Tabassaranski okrug , based in Madschalis) of 1860 created Oblast Dagestan .
On November 22, 1928, the village came to the newly formed Urarinsky canton of the Dagestani ASSR, which had existed since 1921 . On June 3, 1929, the canton was transformed into a Rajon, which was given its current name on April 19, 1930 after the revolutionary Magomed-Ali Dachadajew (1882-1918). On October 18, 1930, the administrative headquarters were relocated from the initially eponymous village of Urari , 15 km west-southwest, to Urkarach.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1897 | 1916 |
1939 | 3040 |
1959 | 2385 |
1970 | 3188 |
1979 | 4110 |
1989 | 4208 |
2002 | 5182 |
2010 | 4394 |
Note: census data
traffic
The regional road 82K-013 runs through Urkarach, which branches off the federal trunk road R217 Kawkas (part of the European route 119 ) almost 40 km east of the Mamedkala settlement , leads over Madschalis and continues into the mountains via Kubatschi and Akuscha to Levaschi . Mamedkala is also the nearest train station on the Rostov-on-Don - Makhachkala - Baku route .
Web links
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)