Watschi

Village Watschi Вачи ( Russian ) Ваччи ( Lakish ) Federal district North Caucasus republic Dagestan Rajon Kulinski population 817 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 1750  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 87268 Post Code 368390 License Plate 05 OKATO 82 229 000 001 Geographical location Coordinates 42 ° 5 '  N , 47 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 42 ° 4 '30 "  N , 47 ° 12' 45"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Dagestan

Watschi ( Russian Вачи , Lakish Ваччи ) is a village (selo) in the Republic of Dagestan in Russia with 817 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 100 km as the crow flies south-southwest of the republic capital Makhachkala in the eastern part of the Greater Caucasus . It is located on the Chunnich, a right tributary of the Kasikumuchskoje Koisu in the Sulak river system .

Watschi is the administrative center of the Rajons Kulinski and seat and only town in the rural community (selskoje posselenije) Selo Watschi. The place is almost entirely inhabited by sheets .

history

The name of the village, known since the Middle Ages, which was mentioned in connection with the Kingdom of Albania ("Caucasian Albania"), possibly goes back to the name of the Albanian king Watsche from the 5th century. After the area was annexed to the Russian Empire and the Dagestan Oblast was formed in 1860, Watschi belonged to their Kasikumuchski okrug , based in Kumuch, which is just under 15 km northwest .

As part of the administrative reorganization of the Dagestani ASSR , founded in 1921 , the village became part of the newly formed Lacian section (Lakski utschastok) in 1922, and in 1928 it was converted into a canton of the same name and once again based in Kumuch. On March 29, 1935, the Kulinski rajon was spun off and named after its initial center, the 6 km south of the village of Kuli , which had previously been the seat of a section within the Kasikumuchski okrug of Dagestan Oblast until 1922. The administrative seat of the Rajon was later moved to Kaja, 1 km north-west of Watschi, and finally to Watschi on March 16, 1940.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	742
1959	796
1970	666
1979	661
1989	786
2002	667
2002	817

Note: census data

traffic

The village is on the regional road 82K-009, which branches off the federal highway R217 Kawkas (formerly M29, part of the European route 119 ) in Sovetskoye , in the central mountainous part of the republic through the Rajon centers Kassumkent , Chiw and Tpig and from Watschi on to Kumuch and Gergebil runs.

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)