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Kazbekovsky District
Kazbekovsky District (russian: Казбе́ковский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #16 and municipalLaw #6 district ( raion), one of the forty-one in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia. It is located in the west of the republic. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the rural locality (a '' selo'') of Dylym. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 42,752, with the population of Dylym accounting for 20.2% of that number. Geography The district is in rugged terrain in the forested foothills of Degestan, 50 km west of the Caspian Sea. The average height is 500 to 1,000 meters above sea level, with higher elevations reaching 1,900 meters. There are many river valleys, canyons, and gulleys cutting the landscape with fast-moving streams. The largest river, the Aktash River, flows from southeast to northwest through the district. Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divisions, Kaz ...
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Aktash River
The Aktash (russian: Акташ) is a river in the Kasbek and Khasavyurt districts of the Republic of Daghestan in Caucasian Russia. It is long, with its width varying from 1.5 meters (5 ft) to . It has an overall slope of 14%. Its watershed is . Name Aktash derives from the Turkic ''ak-'' ("white") and ''taş'' ("stone"). History The river's basin was settled by the Mountain Cossacks from the 1520s. The Don Cossacks arrived under Andrei Shadrin in the late 1570s, founding Andreyevo (present-day Endirey). The two groups eventually formed the Terek Cossacks. The mountainous area of the river was depopulated in 1877 by the Russian Adjutant-General Svistunov to prevent possible uprisings in support of Alibek Haji. Diversion of the river for irrigation now means that it usually does not reach the Caspian Sea The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, often described as the List of lakes by area, world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea. An en ...
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Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eighth of Earth's inhabitable landmass. Russia extends across eleven time zones and shares land boundaries with fourteen countries, more than any other country but China. It is the world's ninth-most populous country and Europe's most populous country, with a population of 146 million people. The country's capital and largest city is Moscow, the largest city entirely within Europe. Saint Petersburg is Russia's cultural centre and second-largest city. Other major urban areas include Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, and Kazan. The East Slavs emerged as a recognisable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries CE. Kievan Rus' arose as a state in the 9th century, and in 988, it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the ...
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Dubki, Republic Of Dagestan
Dubki (russian: Дубки́; av, Хадум) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Kazbekovsky District of the Republic of Dagestan, Russia. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 5,202. Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divisions, the urban-type settlement of Dubki is incorporated within Kazbekovsky District as Dubki Settlement Settlement may refer to: *Human settlement, a community where people live *Settlement (structural), the distortion or disruption of parts of a building *Closing (real estate), the final step in executing a real estate transaction *Settlement (fina ... (an administrative division of the district).Law #16 As a municipal division, Dubki Settlement is incorporated within Kazbekovsky Municipal District as Dubki Urban Settlement.Law #6 References Notes Sources * * {{Use mdy dates, date=February 2015 Urban-type settlements in the Republic of Dagestan __NOTOC__ ...
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Urban-type Settlement
Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, abbreviated: uk, с.м.т., translit=s.m.t.; be, пасёлак гарадскога тыпу, translit=pasiolak haradskoha typu; pl, osiedle typu miejskiego; bg, селище от градски тип, translit=selishte ot gradski tip; ro, așezare de tip orășenesc. is an official designation for a semi-urban settlement (previously called a "town"), used in several Eastern European countries. The term was historically used in Bulgaria, Poland, and the Soviet Union, and remains in use today in 10 of the post-Soviet states. The designation was used in all 15 member republics of the Soviet Union from 1922, when it replaced a number of terms that could have been translated by the English term "town" (Russia – '' posad'', Ukraine ...
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Subdivisions Of Russia
Russia is divided into several types and levels of subdivisions. Federal subjects Since 30 September 2022, the Russian Federation has consisted of eighty-nine federal subjects that are constituent members of the Federation.Constitution, Article 65 However, six of these federal subjects—the Republic of Crimea, the Donetsk People's Republic, the Kherson Oblast, the Lugansk People's Republic, the federal city of Sevastopol and the Zaporozhye Oblast—are internationally recognized as part of Ukraine. All federal subjects are of equal federal rights in the sense that they have equal representation—two delegates each—in the Federation Council (upper house of the Federal Assembly). They do, however, differ in the degree of autonomy they enjoy. De jure, there are 6 types of federal subjects—24  republics, 9  krais, 48  oblasts, 3 federal cities, 1  autonomous oblast, and 4 autonomous okrugs. Autonomous okrugs are the only ones ...
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Caspian Sea
The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, often described as the List of lakes by area, world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea. An endorheic basin, it lies between Europe and Asia; east of the Caucasus, west of the broad steppe of Central Asia, south of the fertile plains of Southern Russia in Eastern Europe, and north of the mountainous Iranian Plateau of Western Asia. It covers a surface area of (excluding the highly saline lagoon of Garabogazköl to its east) and a volume of . It has a salinity of approximately 1.2% (12 g/L), about a third of the salinity of average seawater. It is bounded by Kazakhstan to the northeast, Russia to the northwest, Azerbaijan to the southwest, Iran to the south, and Turkmenistan to the southeast. The sea stretches nearly from north to south, with an average width of . Its gross coverage is and the surface is about below sea level. Its main freshwater Inflow (hydrology), inflow, Europe's longest river, the Volga, enters ...
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Types Of Inhabited Localities In Russia
The classification system of human settlement, inhabited localities in Russia and some other post-Soviet Union, Soviet states has certain peculiarities compared with those in other countries. Classes During the Soviet Union, Soviet time, each of the republics of the Soviet Union, including the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR, had its own legislative documents dealing with classification of inhabited localities. After the history of the Soviet Union (1985-1991), dissolution of the Soviet Union, the task of developing and maintaining such classification in Russia was delegated to the federal subjects of Russia, federal subjects.Articles 71 and 72 of the Constitution of Russia do not name issues of the administrative and territorial structure among the tasks handled on the federal level or jointly with the governments of the federal subjects. As such, all federal subjects pass :Subtemplates of Template RussiaAdmMunRef, their own laws establishing the s ...
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Administrative Center
An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located. In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland and many African countries), a (, plural form , literally 'chief place' or 'main place'), is a town or city that is important from an administrative perspective. Algeria The capital of an Algerian province is called a chef-lieu. The capital of a district, the next largest division, is also called a chef-lieu, whilst the capital of the lowest division, the municipalities, is called agglomération de chef-lieu (chef-lieu agglomeration) and is abbreviated as A.C.L. Belgium The chef-lieu in Belgium is the administrative centre of each of the ten provinces of Belgium. Three of these cities also give their name to their province ( Antwerp, Liège and Namur). France The chef-lieu of a département is known as the '' ...
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District
A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions of municipalities, school district, or political district. By country/region Afghanistan In Afghanistan, a district (Persian ps, ولسوالۍ ) is a subdivision of a province. There are almost 400 districts in the country. Australia Electoral districts are used in state elections. Districts were also used in several states as cadastral units for land titles. Some were used as squatting districts. New South Wales had several different types of districts used in the 21st century. Austria In Austria, the word is used with different meanings in three different contexts: * Some of the tasks of the administrative branch of the national and regional governments are fulfilled by the 95 district administrative offices (). The area a dist ...
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Administrative Divisions Of The Republic Of Dagestan
*Cities and towns under republic's jurisdiction **Makhachkala (Махачкала) (capital) ***''city districts'': **** Kirovsky (Кировский) *****''Urban-type settlements'' under the city district's jurisdiction: ****** Leninkent (Ленинкент) ****** Semender (Семендер) ****** Sulak (Сулак) ****** Shamkhal (Шамхал) **** Leninsky (Ленинский) *****''Urban-type settlements'' under the city district's jurisdiction: ******Novy Kyakhulay (Новый Кяхулай) **** Sovetsky (Советский) *****''Urban-type settlements'' under the city district's jurisdiction: ******Alburikent (Альбурикент) ******Kyakhulay (Кяхулай) ****** Tarki (Тарки) ** Buynaksk (Буйнакск) **Dagestanskiye Ogni (Дагестанские Огни) **Derbent (Дербент) **Izberbash (Избербаш) **Kaspiysk (Каспийск) ** Khasavyurt (Хасавюрт) ** Kizilyurt (Кизилюрт) ***''Urban-type settlements'' under th ...
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Kalininaul, Kazbekovsky District, Republic Of Dagestan
Kalininaul Until 1944 Yurt-Aukh (russian: Калининаул, Until 1944 russian: Юрт-Аух; ce, Ширча-ӀовхМусаев З. М. Чеченский тайп аккой — 2017. — 17 ноября.) is a rural locality (a '' selo'') in Kazbekovsky District of the Republic of Dagestan, Russia, located on the right bank of the Aktas River, at the confluence with the Sala-su River, opposite the ''selo'' of Leninaul, south of Khasavyurt on the border with the Chechen Republic. Population: predominantly Chechen. History The oldest village of Chechens in the Terco-Sulak Meternrech. It was previously known as Shircha-Evla, Yurt-Evla, and Yurt-Aukh. Yurt-Aukh, as it was then called, was until 1944 a part of the Aukh District. In 1944, during the deportation of Chechens to Central Asia, the locals were deported and Avars from the neighboring ''selo'' of Almak settled in their place. In 1956, the Chechens were allowed to return to the Caucasus, but the local au ...
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Raion
A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states. The term is used for both a type of subnational entity and a division of a city. The word is from the French (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), and is commonly translated as "district" in English. A raion is a standardized administrative entity across most of the former Soviet Union and is usually a subdivision two steps below the national level, such as a subdivision of an oblast. However, in smaller USSR republics, it could be the primary level of administrative division. After the fall of the Soviet Union, some of the republics kept the ''raion'' (e.g. Azerbaijan, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan) while others dropped it (e.g. Georgia, Uzbekistan, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Armenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan). In Bulgaria, it refers to an internal administrative subdivision of a city not related to the administrative division of the country as a whole, or, i ...
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