Timeline of Makhachkala

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia.

19th century[]

  • 1844 - Anji Fortress built by Russians.[1]
  • 1852 - Petrovsky lighthouse built.[1]
  • 1857 - Petrovsk-Port granted town status.
  • 1870 - Harbor constructed.[1]
  • 1896 - Rostov-Baku railway built.[1]
  • 1897 - Population: 9,806.[2]

20th century[]

  • 1919
  • 1920 - 30 March: Red Army takes city.[1]
  • 1921 - 14 May: City becomes capital of Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.[1]
  • 1922 - Petrovsk renamed "Makhachkala."[4]
  • 1925 - Russian Drama Theatre established.[1]
  • 1927 - Dynamo Stadium (Makhachkala) opens.
  • 1931 - Teachers' Training Institute founded.[5]
  • 1932 - Dagestankaya Pravda newspaper in publication.[6]
  • 1937 - "Tanker basin" built.[1]
  • 1939 - Population: 86,836.
  • 1944 - Spiritual Directorate of the Muslims of the North Caucasus headquartered in Makhachkala (approximate date).[7]
  • 1946 - Football Club Dynamo Makhachkala formed.
  • 1957 - Dagestan State University established.[5]
  • 1958 - Dagestan Museum of Fine Arts opens.[8]
  • 1965 - Population: 152,000.[9]
  • 1970
    • 14 May: Earthquake.[10]
    • Population: 185,863.
  • 1980 - Mountain Botanical Garden of the Dagestan Scientific Centre established.[11]
  • 1985 - Population: 301,000.[12]
  • 1990 - Dagestan Scientific Centre established.[13]
  • 1991
    • City becomes capital of the Dagestan Republic.[1]
    • Football Club Anzhi Makhachkala formed.
    • 13 June: Muslim demonstration.[14]
  • 1995 - Football Club Anzhi-Bekenez Makhachkala formed.
  • 1996 - August: Bombing.[15]
  • 1998
    • Said Amirov becomes mayor.[7]
    • Makhachkala Grand Mosque consecrated.

21st century[]

  • 2001 - November: Trial of Salman Raduyev begins.[16]
  • 2002
    • 18 January: Bombing.[17]
    • Population: 462,412.
  • 2003 - Chernovik newspaper begins publication.[18]
  • 2005 - 1 July: Makhachkala Rus bombing.
  • 2006 - City flag and coat of arms designs adopted.
  • 2009 - 15 January: Aircraft collision.
  • 2010 - Population: 572,076.
  • 2011
    • 22 November: Bombings.[19]
    • 25 November: Protest.[citation needed]
  • 2012 - 3 May: Bombings.[20]
  • 2013 - 1 June: Mayor Said Amirov arrested.[21]

See also[]

  • History of Makhachkala
  • Administrative divisions of Makhachkala
  • History of Dagestan
  • Timelines of other cities in the North Caucasian Federal District of Russia: Grozny

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i I. Zonn; et al. (2010). Caspian Sea Encyclopedia. Springer. ISBN 3642115241.
  2. ^ Brockhaus 1908.
  3. ^ "Russia: The Caucasus". Supplement to Commerce Reports. Washington, DC. November 3, 1919.
  4. ^ G.R.F. Bursa (1985). "Political Changes of Names of Soviet Towns". Slavonic and East European Review. 63.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b "About Dagestan State University". Makhachkala: Dagestan State University. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
  6. ^ "Dagestan (Russia) Newspapers". WorldCat. USA: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b Robert Bruce Ware (2009), Dagestan: Russian hegemony and Islamic resistance in the North Caucasus, Armonk, N.Y: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., ISBN 9780765620286
  8. ^ Дагестанский Музей Изобразительных Искусств [Dagestan Museum of Fine Arts] (in Russian). Махачкала. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
  9. ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966.
  10. ^ "Soviet Caspian Port Struck by Quake", New York Times, 17 May 1970
  11. ^ "Garden Search: Russian Federation". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  12. ^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.
  13. ^ Robert Chenciner (1997). Daghestan: Tradition and Survival. Routledge Curzon. ISBN 0700706321.
  14. ^ "Soviet Muslims Riot, Seeking Trips to Mecca". New York Times. 14 June 1991.
  15. ^ Sebastian Smith (2006). Allah's Mountains: The Battle for Chechnya. Tauris. ISBN 1850439796. Gamid Gamidov
  16. ^ Europa World Year Book 2004. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 1857432533.
  17. ^ "Dagestani rebels 'planted' nail bomb". BBC News. 19 January 2002.
  18. ^ "Dagestan journalist Kamalov shot dead". BBC News. 16 December 2011.
  19. ^ "Dozens Hurt by 2 Bombs in Capital of Dagestan". New York Times. 22 September 2011.
  20. ^ "Dagestan Russia blasts: At least 12 dead in Makhachkala". BBC News. 4 May 2012.
  21. ^ Ellen Barry (1 June 2013). "Russian Force Arrests Mayor Tied to Killing in Dagestan". New York Times. Retrieved 2 June 2013.

This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia and the Russian Wikipedia.

Bibliography[]

  • "Petrowsk". Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon (in German) (14th ed.). Leipzig: Brockhaus. 1908.
  • "Petrovsk", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York: Encyclopædia Britannica Co., 1910, OCLC 14782424
  • "Petrovsk", Russia, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1914, OCLC 1328163
  • "Caucasus: Makhachkala", Russia, Ukraine & Belarus, Lonely Planet, 1996, p. 656+, OL 16478112W
  • Svetlana Anokhina and Polina Sanaeva, ed. (2013). Был такой Город: Махачкала [There Was a City: Makhachkala] (in Russian). Dagestan. [1]

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