Stela Kaspiysk
As can be logically concluded from the name, the city of Kaspiysk is located on the shores of the Caspian Sea (popularly known as the Caspian). The small satellite city of Makhachkala does not have as long a history as the capital of Dagestan. Until the end of the 40s, it was an urban-type settlement with the proud name of Dvigatelstroy. Then it was renamed.
Today, cottage villages spreading from the borders of both cities have begun to intertwine, like tree roots, and have practically united them. As the local population suggests, in a few years the question may arise of Kaspiysk becoming part of Makhachkala. The city is 14 km away from the Makhachkala railway station (practically the center), and Uytash airport is just a stone's throw away - no more than 5 km. Compared to the distances of Moscow, St. Petersburg or another large Russian city, these are ridiculous numbers.
Despite the fact that it is located on the seashore, Kaspiysk has not become a resort and is unlikely to ever become due to the military units and strategic plant located on its territory.
Climate and ecology of Kaspiysk
Kaspiysk, like other southern Russian cities, boasts relatively mild winters. The temperature in January-February rarely drops below -10 degrees. True, a damp, cold draft often blows from the sea, so the cold is felt more strongly. There is little snow falling and it melts quickly.
Spring comes on time; at the end of March, cherries and apricots already bloom. Summer in Kaspiysk is hot, and without air conditioning indoors is difficult to tolerate. The most exhausting period begins in mid-June and ends in August.
Until recently, Kaspiysk was almost as dirty as Makhachkala. Black garlands of garbage bags decorated the trees along the highways, and the aroma from overflowing garbage cans spread for several meters around. The reason for this was, first of all, the concept of the average Dagestani “Everything outside the window is not my territory,” as well as the belief that a janitor is a shameful profession for a mountaineer (or mountaineer). Now the situation has improved significantly. And janitors appeared, and propaganda posters calling on citizens to maintain cleanliness not only in their own apartment.
The road surface is being improved, ugly “shell” garages are being eliminated, and there are touching inscriptions on garbage cans: “Don’t set me on fire! Do you need me". There are no other particularly dangerous sources of environmental pollution (except for local residents) in Kaspiysk.
Population of Kaspiysk
Since the formation of Kaspiysk, its population has only been growing. At the beginning of 2014, just over 105 thousand people lived in the city, which, again, is not much by Russian standards. Almost all 35 nationalities of Dagestan are represented.
During Soviet times, Kaspiysk was considered a “Russian” city. There were many Russians here who worked at the Dagdizel plant, as well as residents of military units. In the summer, relatives came to these residents, and the Russian-speaking population almost doubled. Today, Russians make up about 10% of the Caspian population (5th place in number). Those who left are in no hurry to return due to the unstable situation in the republic and lack of work. The attitude towards those who remain is tolerant, since they are mostly old residents of the city who have many acquaintances. And the legendary mountain hospitality does not order to offend neighbors if no harm comes from them.
The absolute majority of the townspeople are Muslims, with no more than 15% Christians. The growth of religious self-awareness of the mountaineers is becoming more and more noticeable. If five years ago in Kaspiysk a woman in a hijab or a man with a long beard was seen off with a surprised look and whispers, now this is a common occurrence. Despite their numerical superiority, Christians in Kaspiysk are treated loyally. Here you will not see nationalist graffiti on the walls, and no one desecrates the church in the city center. Basically, Caspian residents are secular people who respect the Constitution and mountain adats, and even those are selective.
There are quite a lot of young people and young families in Kaspiysk. And a lot of children. Boys and girls strive to get a higher education, but for many it is still a matter of prestige, and not a real opportunity in the future to get a job in their specialty. Despite a significant degree of Europeanization, the adult part of the population still retains some conservative norms of behavior: on the street you will not see a man in shorts, a woman dressed too provocatively, or a couple kissing.
Districts and real estate of Kaspiysk
Every year the city expands, fortunately the desert area around allows this to happen. As mentioned above, in the north and in the region of New Khushet it practically merged with Makhachkala. To the west, expansion does not occur at such a rapid pace, and in the south, Kaspiysk ends completely.
Today Kaspiysk covers an area of 33 square kilometers and is divided into three areas: a military town, a stone quarry and the private sector.
In a military town, the majority of residents are military men and their families, the rest are mere mortals. Large areas are unofficially divided into microdistricts, which generally bear the names of some nearby popular objects: the area of Lake Turali, a brick factory, Anzhi, Cultural Park, etc.
The streets almost everywhere follow the “American layout” - parallels and perpendiculars, so getting lost is problematic.
The most prestigious neighborhoods are considered to be in the city center (Khizroev St., Akhmet Khan Sultana) and on the seashore (Lenin St., Khalilov St.), but they are not very pronounced, since the city is small, and the center is a 10-minute drive from the most distant district. Prices for apartments in Kaspiysk are already comparable to those in Makhachkala, both in terms of renting and purchasing housing. Renting a one-room apartment costs at least 8,000 rubles/month (if the renovation is not great and there is no furniture). The cost of purchased housing depends on the stage of construction of the house and the area of the apartment. The estimated 1-room apartment will cost approximately 400,000 rubles, the frame - from 600,000 rubles, a lived-in nest - from 800,000 rubles and more.
The “Old Town” in Kaspiysk is a collection of nostalgic five- and nine-story buildings lined with trees, including fruit-bearing ones. Quiet green streets, small shops and cafes, of which there are many in every district, touch the soul. Unfortunately, Kaspiysk cannot boast of an exquisite style or architectural monuments.
The private sector on the southern outskirts of the city consists of streets stretching along fences of various sizes. Unfortunately, in none of the cities of Dagestan there are architectural plans for private houses, so buildings of all possible styles and colors do not combine with each other. On the one hand, this gives unlimited scope to the owner’s imagination, on the other hand, Kaspiysk does not have its own recognizable style, like European or American towns.
There is no distinct business center, residential areas or slums in Kaspiysk. There are some elite high-rise buildings and private houses, but overall the city looks the same in the Soviet style. There are few “party” places - the Moscow entertainment complex and the Orion cafe.
Young people simply walk along the streets and in the Park of Culture, or go for walks in Makhachkala, where there are more opportunities to have a good time.
Infrastructure condition
All houses in Kaspiysk are divided into private buildings and “sections” (high-rise buildings with 5 floors and above). High-rise buildings in most cases are panel houses from the Khrushchev era, 5 or 9 floors high. From the outside they are a sad sight, but inside the apartments can shine with European-quality renovation and fabulously expensive furniture. The city is now experiencing a construction boom, which has resulted in the construction of more modern high-rise buildings. The private sector is, accordingly, private houses with their own fenced area. The architecture is anything from old adobe houses to luxurious mansions with turrets.
In general, as far as housing and communal services are concerned, Kaspiysk compares favorably with Makhachkala: the light “goes out” extremely rarely, the heating works well, and the elevators also stopped being turned off after 9 pm. The only rather serious problem that city authorities still cannot solve is water “by the hour.” The schedule is strict: water is served from 6 to 9 am, then at lunch from 12 to 2 and in the evening from 18.00 to 21.30. Therefore, in every house/apartment, in the bathroom, you will definitely find either a couple of huge buckets of 50 liters or more, or a squad of 5-liter drinking water bottles.
There are two main types of transport in Kaspiysk - minibuses and taxis. The cost of one trip on a minibus to any part of the city is 12 rubles in 2013. A taxi will cost 50-70 rubles, and calling a car by phone will cost less than “voting” on the highway. There are no state modes of transport here, so there is no concept of a “pass”. The roads are generally good, there are no traffic jams. Recently, the construction of the new Kaspiysk-Makhachkala highway was completed, and now you can get to the capital in about fifteen minutes. This is very important for Caspian residents, since many go to Makhachkala every day to work.
Like other large cities of Dagestan, Kaspiysk has a catastrophic shortage of kindergartens. A place for one child costs 20-30 thousand rubles. If you don’t “give it a go,” the child runs the risk of waiting his turn at school. In principle, there are no places outside the queue for large families and single mothers. The situation with schools is a little better, but classes are also packed.
In Kaspiysk there are clinics for children and adults, a hospital, and a maternity hospital. All of them are in a rather deplorable state for the 21st century, and most importantly, it is very difficult to find a doctor who would treat an unfamiliar patient humanely if he does not have a banknote or, in extreme cases, a box of chocolates. Also in the city there is one of the best eye clinics in the republic - the Eye Microsurgery Center. Citizens were able to appreciate the advantages of paid medicine (modern building, absence of kilometer-long queues, coolers, etc.), since several paid medical centers opened in the city, including those from the “Healer” network of clinics and pharmacies.
Enterprises and work in Kaspiysk
The large enterprises Dagdizel and the Caspian Precision Mechanics Plant located in Kaspiysk are still operating. This is a surprising and pleasant fact, because many Dagestan factories died for a long time after perestroika. The factories are smaller and completely owned by private individuals - a clothing factory, a winery, a bakery and several factories specializing in construction.
By the way, the construction business in Kaspiysk and in Dagestan in general is a highly profitable and highly competitive industry. However, several scandals are associated with it, when law enforcement agencies discovered that real slaves were working in factories - people whose documents were taken away and forced to work for a piece of bread against their will.
Most city residents work in smaller enterprises, and even more often - for themselves or for one of their relatives. In Kaspiysk you can open a bakery, a hairdresser, a wedding salon, an on-call taxi, a mini-deli, a cafe. Local craftsmen are engaged in tailoring, both in the studio and at home, without opening an individual entrepreneur. Enterprising businessmen are opening banquet halls for weddings: in Dagestan it is customary to invite a lot of people to a wedding; ordinary restaurants cannot accommodate so many guests. Such halls are in constant demand, and the schedule of the most popular ones is scheduled months in advance.
You can always get a low-paid, unskilled job, but to get a position higher than a senior cashier you have to work hard. And this does not guarantee a promotion, since money and family connections decide a lot. More conscientious entrepreneurs even hide from relatives that a good position has become vacant in their company - in order to hire a truly competent specialist, and not a second cousin of their cousin. It is not customary to refuse if you are asked to accommodate a relative.
There are no large shopping centers in Kaspiysk, like in Makhachkala. There is a chain of supermarkets “Pyaterochka”, the concept of which is different from what, for example, Muscovites are used to. Here it is not an economy class store, but an average one and in some cases even a luxury one. Citizens prefer to shop in nearby shops or markets. There are four markets in the city: central, clothing, wholesale and small. There is also a car market, the only one in Dagestan, it is located on the highway between Kaspiysk and Makhachkala. Brand new cars from Moscow and Europe are brought here, as well as new owners for their old iron horses.
Criminal situation
Kaspiysk is a quiet and calm town. Due to the fact that there are few enterprises here that can be divided up, and the entire elite lives in Makhachkala, there are no showdowns between criminal structures. They usually shoot at weddings or during a special operation in a cordoned off area.
Thefts happen. There are practically no rapists and pedophiles - due to the peculiarity of the mentality of the mountaineers. Residents calmly let children go out alone from the age of 5-6; it is safe to move around the city at night.
Unlike Makhachkala, terrorist attacks also bypass Kaspiysk. It’s not that they don’t exist at all, but they don’t happen as often as in the capital. The largest terrorist attack that thundered throughout Russia occurred in 1996. Then, as a result of the explosion, a dormitory for military personnel and their families collapsed, out of 106 people, 67 died. Some call the “forest brothers” the culprits, others call them criminal structures that took revenge on the border guards. Another infamous explosion occurred on May 9, 2002 during the Victory Parade. It claimed the lives of 43 people.
The organizers were considered to be militants, although none of the field commanders took responsibility for the terrorist attack, justifying this by the fact that they were not at war with the civilian population. In general, if you stay away from police and traffic police posts, you can consider yourself relatively safe in Kaspiysk. It is also categorically not recommended to touch suspicious objects on the street, or to lift or kick packages and boxes - in Dagestan, including Kaspiysk, civilians were blown up several times by disguised bombs.
Sights of Kaspiysk
Every city or town has attractions. And in Kaspiysk they are, even if at first glance they are not visible. The first point where city guests are brought is, of course, the sea coast. The sea within the city is not very clean, but people swim. Those who are especially squeamish go out of town and swim wherever they can get to the water.
Where there is no sand - stones
Since military installations are sometimes located along the coast, it is worth looking around before undertaking any maneuvers. The shore of the Caspian Sea is sandy, with broken shells, and smoothly goes into the sea. The sea air can be felt in the city; they say that even asthmatics do not need an inhaler here.
Not far from Kaspiysk there is a water amusement park "Aqualand". It is located in the open air, so it is only open during the swimming season. The park has slides for children and adults, and there is a cafe on site.
Actually, in the sea there is another interesting attraction of Kaspiysk - the dilapidated workshop number eight of the Dagdizel plant (popularly known as “Tamara”, the castle of Queen Tamara). This unique building, vaguely reminiscent of Fort Bayard, was built in the middle of the sea to test torpedoes produced by the plant.
It worked until the early 60s, then there was no need for it. The object was not flooded, but they are in no hurry to turn it into a museum. Thrill-seekers can be advised to go there by boat at night, although the workshop is a depressing experience even during the day. Inside there are only seagulls, rats and rusty torpedoes.
Another place you can visit if you find yourself in Kaspiysk is the Cultural Park, located on the coast. Young people and mothers with strollers walk here, you can look at the sea and trees, there is nothing else of interest in the park. If you are interested in natural disasters, you should climb the breakwaters and look at the remains of the area that was swallowed up by the rising water.
There are many different cafes in Kaspiysk, each of which will serve you traditional dishes of the peoples of Dagestan, as well as pizza, which, in principle, has also become a national dish. There is a cinema “Moscow”, where they show the latest cartoons and movies.
So far, Kaspiysk has not acquired any sights that will amaze the mind. Its advantages are its location on the coast, peacefulness and tranquility. Life here is good for married couples and elderly people, but for young people and active adults it is, of course, a bit boring. In addition, the high unemployment rate and low probability of moving up the career ladder make the city not the most attractive place to move. But if you are tired of the “perpetuum mobile” of big cities, if you want peace without a strong separation from civilization, then Kaspiysk is for you!
Kaspiysk is located in the center of the Republic of Dagestan, on the shores of the Caspian Sea, not far from Makhachkala. The total area is 32.94 km². The date of foundation dates back to 1932. Until 1947, it was called the village of Dvigatestroy.
Districts of Kaspiysk
The city grows with new territories every year. Kaspiysk can be divided into three large areas: a stone quarry, a military town and the private sector. They, in turn, are unofficially divided into microdistricts, which are mainly named after some popular objects located nearby - for example, a brick factory, a cultural park, Lake Turali, Anzhi, and so on.
Population of Kaspiysk for 2018 and 2019. Number of residents of Kaspiysk
Data on the number of city residents are taken from the Federal State Statistics Service. The official website of the Rosstat service is www.gks.ru. The data was also taken from the unified interdepartmental information and statistical system, the official website of EMISS www.fedstat.ru. The website publishes data on the number of residents of Kaspiysk. The table shows the distribution of the number of residents of Kaspiysk by year; the graph below shows the demographic trend in different years.
Graph of population changes in Kaspiysk:
The total population in 2014 was approximately 105 thousand, and the density was 3190.83 people/km². Throughout the history of Kaspiysk, there has been a constant increase in the number of citizens. Among them you can meet all 35 peoples of the republic.
During the USSR, many Russians lived in the city, who were military personnel, as well as workers at the Dagdizel plant. As of 2010, the national composition is distributed as follows: Lezgins (21.39%), Dargins (20.73%), Avars (14.63%), Laks (14.25%), Kumyks (9.68%). ), Russians (8.98%), Tabasarans (5.41%), Aguls (1.71%), Rutulians (1.16%), others (1.87%), the share of those who did not indicate their nationality was 0.17 %.
Mostly people living in Kaspiysk belong to the Lezgin branch of the Nakh-Dagestan family - 29.7%.
Ethno-funeral: Caspian, Caspian, Caspian.
Kaspiysk city photo. Photo of Kaspiysk
Information about the city of Kaspiysk on Wikipedia.
I will continue to photo-describe my travels around Russia, in fact, this is what the blog was created for, but somehow I deviated. :)
I’ll step away from the chronology of my trips and tell you about my trip to Dagestan in October 2008. It was a work trip that had been planned for a long time, but somehow kept getting postponed. I was glad of that, since I didn’t really want to go there. Or rather, I wanted to, but I was injecting myself :) 3 years ago it was not as “hot” there as it is now, but there were already precedents.
The destination was the city of Kaspiysk. Before the trip, I knew only 2 things about this city - that it is located on the coast of the Caspian Sea and that there was a terrible terrorist attack on May 9, 2002, when a parade column on the central street of the city was blown up...
We got there like this: first to Saratov by bus, then by train to Makhachkala. The train was a compartment and almost empty, which was pleasing. The day before, even before departure, there was news about a train explosion in Dagestan. It was a little unnerving, but everyone got there successfully. We drove almost the entire way through the republic at night and didn’t see much. In the morning, at the entrance to Makhachkala, I looked a little at the foothills of the Caucasus. Beautiful...
We left Ulyanovsk on a chilly October evening - We left in Makhachkala on a sunny summer morning :)
We were supposed to live on the territory of a military unit on the outskirts of Kaspiysk. We got to Kaspiysk by car - we were met by servicemen from this unit. We settled in a barracks for contract soldiers, not far from the Caspian Sea.
I must say that even though I didn’t serve in the army, I lived the army life to my heart’s content over many years of work :) We were given a room, divided into boxes with 3 beds. The conditions are quite acceptable, except for the second room, which we refused to live in :) It was recently spilled from the top floor and, due to high humidity, it quickly became covered with mold, like in horror films:) Gross moldy vegetation covered the walls, beds, and nightstands with thick fluff , floor. It seems to me that if anyone had an allergy to mold, he would have died there in a couple of minutes :) But since there were only 6 free beds in the first room, and there were 7 of us, the healthiest one had to choose the most " more or less" :) Fortunately, a place in the first room was soon freed up and he didn’t have to live there for long. Contract Marines lived in the remaining rooms. Every morning we heard all sorts of jokes about the formation in front of the barracks, and at night we often heard the alarm “Vulcan-5” (terrorist attack) being raised - it was restless in the mountains...
We were allowed to eat in the contract soldiers' canteen. For free. But we quickly got tired of it :) A couple of times pilaf with worms, once the veins of an unknown mammal that died a natural death (in principle, we never saw any more animal protein) led to the decision being made to eat in a cafe outside the territory of the unit. That's what I was looking forward to most - eating Dagestan cuisine! And I succeeded. The first time, out of hunger, I ordered 3 dishes as usual - first, second and salad. When they brought it, I realized that I would have already eaten one of the dishes. I've never seen such portions! The lagman did not fit in a large plate, the pilaf was falling off the edges, the Olivier salad was the same :) For all this we paid about 130 rubles. Moreover, everything was so polite as I have never seen anywhere else. And it was just a roadside cafe. In general, the Caucasus began to feel special from that moment.
During my month in Kaspiysk, I ate only in this cafe and tried all the dishes they had in stock. However, they did not have the most important thing - lamb... We found it in one small cafe, which from the outside looked like our local rygalovka. ..
But in Dagestan everything is deceptive. We went inside and the space opened up in front of us! One large banquet hall and several smaller ones on the sides. We were shown in a friendly manner to one of the smaller halls. When we saw how much the table was set there, we immediately wanted to run away, because we thought how much they would charge us for all this:)
Having eaten plenty of lamb in different forms, we asked for the bill and... laughed when they brought it to us :) The amount was kind of funny. It’s amazing, such a service for little money... Our restaurateurs have a lot to learn.
On the first day of our arrival we went to explore the city and see the SEA :) The city is of the Soviet era - all buildings are at least from the 30s. Moreover, since the collapse of the USSR, apparently, they have not been repaired. The facades are dilapidated, there is some kind of devastation everywhere, constant construction...
The town is small, we quickly got to the seaside park.
By the way, the park is being monitored. New paving stones, loosened soil.
And here is the Caspian Sea itself:
In the distance you can see an abandoned building - a test torpedo base. Now it is almost destroyed and serves as a nesting ground for seagulls. Neither give nor take - Fort Bayard! But if money had been invested in it in a timely manner, these wonderful games could have been held here too. But Dagestan has a special destiny...
How I dreamed of this moment - to stand on the shore of the Gray Caspian Sea! The smell is Volga, native. Well, where else does the water come from? :)
Near the shore there is a sculpture of an incomprehensible design:
This column stands in the water. No, everything is clear with the mermaid. The height of the column is not clear. In Vladik, I also saw a mermaid, but she was barely visible from the water - everything is logical. A mermaid on a pole - not so much. Or once upon a time there was such a water level in the Caspian Sea :)
The water in the sea is dirty and this is due to the recent increase in the water level of the Caspian Sea - the sea is being restored, flooding the coastal treatment plants. City sewage often goes into the sea without treatment.
After a walk along the embankment, we headed to the unit. On the way, a well-kept Orthodox church was noticed - Islam gets along well with Orthodoxy:
Soviet period park:
Isn't it a bit like Pripyat? At least that's what it reminded me of.
It feels like with the collapse of the USSR some soul has left here irrevocably and everything is gradually falling into desolation...
We walked along the main street where the terrorist attack took place in 2002... A memorial was erected in its place:
Many people died. Children, civilians, officers, privates... The landmine exploded from under the curb, scattering the deadly filling - rebar, balls. The nature of the wounds was mainly to the waist - severed feet, legs... The Marines showed us an uncensored video - hell... It’s impossible to watch. A similar memorial was erected on the territory of our unit in which the fallen Marines served.
We walked to the very center of the town - it is the market and the bus station.
A beautiful, despite the devastation, building from the Stalin era:
Market building:
The market in Kaspiysk is a separate issue. We found ourselves just in the velvet season, when the shelves were bursting with fruits, grapes, cheese, vegetables and herbs. Such a variety of selected products! Feijoa, Derbent and Azerbaijani pomegranates, quince, persimmon, grapes, tangerines, oranges... In the dairy department you can buy salty and VERY salty cheese, like Adyghe cheese. And all for little money. Nobody cuts less than a kilogram of cheese :) I once asked to try the grapes before buying - in response there was a silent pause. "Are you not local?" - "How did you find out"? - “They don’t ask us.” With these words, he takes out a bag, pours a handful of feijoa and a bunch of grapes into it for me - “It’s free, so they don’t ask anymore. Just take it and try, it’s accepted” :) I remember later, in Ulyanovsk, in front of me in line, a man asked me to cut off a pear sample In response, round eyes - “You buy it, then you’ll try...”. Mentality...
One day we went on reconnaissance to Makhachkala. On the way from Kaspiysk I saw a bunch of unfinished cottages. It feels like there is constant construction going on there. They build everything and wherever there is space. In Makhachkala I saw a cottage with one wall attached to a 9-story panel building :) I saved on bricks for an entire wall :)
We started the walk from the park near Lake Ak-Gel (Bolshoye Turalinskoye).
Even before the trip, I noticed this surreal monument to the Teacher on Tema Lebedev’s website.
The purpose of this stick is just to support the globe, which the teacher holds in an amazing way - like a basketball player holding a ball. From a distance the stick looks like a cane, naturally :)
The monument is well maintained, there are fresh flowers. From here it becomes clear that the Dagestanis’ attitude towards teachers is respectful.
Nearby is Lake Ak-Gel. There are factories and cool cottages built around - everything is in a heap...
On this day, some school sporting events were taking place in the park and there were many schoolchildren. One group noticed me with such a large, black camera that they had probably never seen before, judging by the reaction. They ran up with the question: “Which newspaper are you from?” I almost sat down... In general, they uncompromisingly persuaded me to take a photo of them:
At parting, they also uncompromisingly made me promise to send photos. Now attention - the address: "11 A class, ponel?" Well, of course I understand. I tried to send the promised photos to this address, but unfortunately the letter did not arrive... Therefore, the photos are here :)
And here is an example of Dagestan urban construction:
Why waste precious land between houses? That's right, we'll build cottages there :) They'll probably take an example from America :)
Center of Makhachkala - central department store:
It should be noted that Dagestan seems to be the only place where “Rafiki” remains as a route taxi :) You can see it in the picture - on the left, behind the head of a passerby. You can buy anything you want in a department store. Expensive.
Streetscapes:
"Know your weight and rest"
"Theater on Tour"
Recording studio in a booth, between roadways:
Urban jungle:
Cafe "Barracuda" with an inscription in an unknown language above the entrance:
At first there was an old sign, we decided to hang a new one. Then we thought, why all the letters? The first 4 are normal...
Encouraging...
Another promenade in Makhachkala. Directly behind it are railway tracks, and behind them is the sea, and beyond the sea is Kazakhstan :) :
Park your car in a secure parking lot, otherwise nothing will help...
As we understand from a large number of similar advertisements, in Dagestan many people know how to quickly and cheaply destroy concrete...
And here is the result:
And this is the very center of the city... Am I missing something?
Embankment:
As I understand it, it was either the sea that did it, or the people from the sea.
Caught a fish...
By the way, we asked fishermen at the market about black caviar. They said no problem. 10 thousand per kg. In Astrakhan there were already 40 thousand.
City Beach. You can still swim in October, but...
IT IS FORBIDDEN!!
(remember about sea level and wastewater treatment plants...)
But it’s beautiful, you can just take a walk:
Two girls decided to leave themselves in history:
They just won’t understand, the stupid ones, that in the mirror image they write “...oksh 8”
I don’t know, maybe I didn’t search well, but I didn’t find a single word “DICK”:
Don't know? Or culture? In a place like this, the hit rate of this word would be 99%
By the way, this is a summer cinema screen, if anyone doesn’t understand :)
These are the creatures I saw in the coffin of Crimea:
They look like hummingbirds. But insects. They hover in the air in front of a flower and drink nectar with their long trunk. Well done, you can't say anything...
Just a cute Dagestan girl (in the background):
I’m even afraid to imagine that in this building there is:
I wouldn't want to go there...
Now the most interesting part of the whole walk around Makhachkala. We reach the central square. Well, like ours - the house of councils and the square. Have you ever taken a photo of your central square? Yes, I did, that’s why I decided to take pictures here, well, it’s beautiful.
I didn’t even have time to take 10 pictures, I heard a whistle... I saw a policeman rushing towards me at full speed and blowing his whistle.
I'M SHOCKED!
- You can’t take pictures here!!
- Why?
- Patamu! Government House is not allowed!
- Fine, I will not...
- Erase what you took off!
- Yes, I didn’t rent the house...
- PACK!
Let's start looking at the preview...
-Can I leave this one?
- NO!
- This one?
- NO!
- What is allowed??
- YOU CAN REMOVE!
It's clear...
So I don’t have any photos of their White House left... :(((
There is a secret object on the right. You can't even look there for a long time :)
But the policeman turned out to be kind - he didn’t break the camera, and thank you for that!
And finally, from Makhachkala:
This is the only sturgeon that I have seen in the Caspian republic... A little tough... ZAPKASPRYBVOD in one word...
But this is far from the end:) There is still a story ahead about Derbent, the Naryn-Kala fortress as ancient as the world, a Muslim cemetery with the graves of 40 prophets of Muhammad, Caspian monsters, ancient lighthouses and the gray Caspian Sea:). All this is in the next parts of the story.
Second part of the story:
The city of Kaspiysk is located on the territory of the state (country) Russia, which in turn is located on the territory of the continent Europe.Which federal district does the city of Kaspiysk belong to?
The city of Kaspiysk is part of the federal district: North Caucasus.The Federal District is an enlarged territory consisting of several constituent entities of the Russian Federation.
In what region is the city of Kaspiysk located?
The city of Kaspiysk is part of the Republic of Dagestan region.A characteristic of a region or a subject of a country is the integrity and interconnection of its constituent elements, including cities and other settlements that are part of the region.
The region of the Republic of Dagestan is an administrative unit of the state of Russia.
