The Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
av, Дагъистаналъул Автономияб Советияб Социалистияб Жумгьурият
az, Дағыстан Мухтар Совет Сосиалист Республикасы
kum, Дагъыстан Автономиялы Советни Социалистни Республика (1921–1991), abbreviated as Dagestan ASSR;
av, Дагъистаналъул АССР;
kum, Дагъыстан АССР;
lez, Дагъустандин АССР;
lbe, Дагъусттаннал АССР;
az, Дағыстан МССР, italics=no;
Aghul: Дагъустан АССР;
ce, ДегӀастанан АССР;
nog, Дагыстан АССР or DASSR and also unofficially known as Soviet Dagestan or just simply Dagestan, was an

autonomous republic An autonomous republic is a type of administrative division similar to a province or state. A significant number of autonomous republics can be found within the successor states of the Soviet Union, but the majority are located within Russia. M ...

of the

Russian SFSR The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...

within the

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. This "Land of Mountains" was known also for having a "mountain of peoples," with more than thirty ethnic groups indigenous to the territory. Although as part of its strategy to promote local languages and to discourage

pan-Turkic Pan-Turkism is a political movement that emerged during the 1880s among Turkic intellectuals who lived in the Russian region of Kazan (Tatarstan), Caucasus (modern-day Azerbaijan) and the Ottoman Empire (modern-day Turkey), with its aim ...

and

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movements, a half-dozen of these ethnicities were provided with schooling in their native language at some point in Soviet history, Russian language became the most widespread

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and gradually the

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, especially in urban areas.Краткая справка об административно-территориальных изменениях Ставропольского края за 1920—1992 гг.
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minor planet According to the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is exclusively classified as neither a planet nor a comet. Before 2006, the IAU officially used the term ''minor ...

2297 Daghestan, discovered in 1978 by

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

astronomer

Nikolai Chernykh Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh (russian: Никола́й Степа́нович Черны́х) (6 October 1931 – 25 May 2004Казакова, Р.К. Памяти Николая Степановича Черных'. Труды Государст ...

, is named after the Dagestan ASSR.

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File:Soviet-caucasus1922.png, Map of the Dagestan ASSR and other ASSR in Caucasus region in 1922 File:Dagestan-1953.JPG, Map of the Dagestan ASSR in 1953 File:Soviet Caucasus map.svg, Map of the Dagestan ASSR and other ASSR in Caucasus region

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Autonomous republics of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic States and territories established in 1921 Former socialist republics 1921 establishments in Russia 1991 disestablishments in the Soviet Union {{USSR-stub

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