Timeline of Makhachkala

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
  • 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]
• 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.
• 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. 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. "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. 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.

External links

• "Dagestan State Archives" (in Russian). Makhachkala.