Kizilyurt

Kisiljurt (Russian Кизилюрт ) is a city in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan with 32 988 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located on the northeast edge of the Greater Caucasus, south of the Terek - Sulak level about 60 km north-west of the Republic capital Makhachkala on the right bank of the Sulak.

Kisiljurt the Republic is under the administrative right and also the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons. The city is the urban-type settlements Novy Sulak ( 5,440 inhabitants) and Bawtugai ( 5,234 inhabitants) and the village of Stary Bawtugai ( 2,045 inhabitants) report directly, so that the total population of the administrative unit Kisiljurt city is 47 096 (calculated 2009).

The city lies on the opened on this section in 1894 main line of the North Caucasus Railway Rostov - Makhachkala - Baku ( 2228 line kilometers from Moscow). Here branches off from a distance by Kizlyar, where connection direction Astrakhan is. The nearly 80 -kilometer-long section Kisiljurt - Kizlyar was to bypass Chechnya during the Second Chechen War in the year 2000. Through Kisiljurt the M29 highway Rostov -on-Don leads - Azerbaijani border.

History

Kisiljurt received its town charter in 1963, when the same workers' settlement with the settlements Bawtugai and Sulak was merged administratively. The name is on Kumyk for red settlement, where " Red" has ideological significance.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy

In the city there is a electrical engineering and a chemical plant ( acid and salts ) as well as companies in the building materials industry.

Kisiljurt is the center of an agricultural region with irrigated agriculture, viticulture and sheep.

Above the city is located on the Sulak Tschirjurt Dam complex.