Timeline of Makhachkala
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia.
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19th century
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- 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
- No. 221 Squadron RAF and No. 266 Squadron RAF of the United Kingdom based in Petrovsk.
- Population: 18,000.[3]
- 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]
- 1959 - Population: 119,334.
- 1970
- 14 May: Earthquake.[9]
- Population: 185,863.
- 1980 - Mountain Botanical Garden of the Dagestan Scientific Centre established.[10]
- 1989 - Population: 317,475.
- 1990 - Dagestan Scientific Centre established.[11]
- 1991
- City becomes capital of the Dagestan Republic.[1]
- Football Club Anzhi Makhachkala formed.
- 13 June: Muslim demonstration.[12]
- 1995 - Football Club Anzhi-Bekenez Makhachkala formed.
- 1996 - August: Bombing.[13]
- 1998
- Said Amirov becomes mayor.[7]
- Makhachkala Grand Mosque consecrated.
21st century
- 2001 - November: Trial of Salman Raduyev begins.[14]
- 2002
- 18 January: Bombing.[15]
- Population: 462,412.
- 2003 - Chernovik newspaper begins publication.[16]
- 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.[17]
- 25 November: Protest.
- 2012 - 3 May: Bombings.[18]
- 2013 - 1 June: Mayor Said Amirov arrested.[19]
See also
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 I. Zonn; et al. (2010). Caspian Sea Encyclopedia. Springer. ISBN 3642115241.
- ↑ "Petrowsk". Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon (in German) (14th ed.). Leipzig: Brockhaus. 1908.
- ↑ "Russia: The Caucasus". Supplement to Commerce Reports. Washington, DC. November 3, 1919.
- ↑ G.R.F. Bursa (1985). "Political Changes of Names of Soviet Towns". Slavonic and East European Review. 63.
- 1 2 "About Dagestan State University". Makhachkala: Dagestan State University. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
- ↑ "Dagestan (Russia) Newspapers". WorldCat. USA: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
- 1 2 Robert Bruce Ware (2009), Dagestan: Russian hegemony and Islamic resistance in the North Caucasus, Armonk, N.Y: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., ISBN 9780765620286
- ↑ Дагестанский Музей Изобразительных Искусств [Dagestan Museum of Fine Arts] (in Russian). Махачкала. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
- ↑ "Soviet Caspian Port Struck by Quake", New York Times, 17 May 1970
- ↑ "Garden Search: Russian Federation". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved March 2015. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ↑ Robert Chenciner (1997). Daghestan: Tradition and Survival. Routledge Curzon. ISBN 0700706321.
- ↑ "Soviet Muslims Riot, Seeking Trips to Mecca". New York Times. 14 June 1991. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
- ↑ Sebastian Smith (2006). Allah's Mountains: The Battle for Chechnya. Tauris. ISBN 1850439796.
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- ↑ Europa World Year Book 2004. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 1857432533.
- ↑ "Dagestani rebels 'planted' nail bomb". BBC News. 19 January 2002. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
- ↑ "Dagestan journalist Kamalov shot dead". BBC News. 16 December 2011. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
- ↑ "Dozens Hurt by 2 Bombs in Capital of Dagestan". New York Times. 22 September 2011. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
- ↑ "Dagestan Russia blasts: At least 12 dead in Makhachkala". BBC News. 4 May 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
- ↑ 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.
Further reading
- "Petrovsk", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York: Encyclopaedia 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.
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