Buynaksk

Buynaksk is a metropolis in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia. Before 1922 Buynaksk become known as Temir-Khan-Shura, this is, the lake or cliff of Tamerlane who's stated to have camped here in 1396 after defeating Tokhtamysh throughout the Tokhtamysh-Timur war. It first appears in Russian annals in the 1590s while Muscovite ambassadors handed close by on their manner to Georgia. It remained a small town dominated with the aid of a Bek. In 1830 the Russians destroyed it when it sided with Kazi Mulla.

In 1832 a Russian pressure under Klugenau camped right here at some point of Rosen's raid on Gimry. In 1834 Klugenau constructed a fort on the rock above the lake and it quickly have become the headquarters of the Apsheron Regiment and the maximum essential Russian fort inside the interior of Degestan all through the Murid War. In 1849 Hadji Murad led a daring raid into the city. The region changed into dangerous and Argutinsky tired the lake in 1858 to save you the unfold of disorder.

It was granted city status in 1866. In 1920, it was the center of the ephemeral Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus. On November 13, 1920, the government of the Russian SFSR d Dagestan's autonomy in the course of the congress of the Dagestani people, which took place in Temir-Khan-Shura. In 1922, the town turned into renamed Buynaksk in honor of a progressive Ullubiy Buynaksky. In May 1970, Buynaksk was badly broken with the aid of an earthquake.