Khunzakh

Khunzakh is a rural locality and the administrative center of Khunzakhsky District in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia, located in the North Caucasus mountains above sea level. Population:

History

It is widely accepted among historians that in the period of 5th to 12th century AD, Khunzakh, known as Humraj, was the capital of Sarir, a powerful Christian state in the mountains of the Caucasus.
Khunzakh served as the capital of the Caucasian Avar Khanate from the early 13th century until the Caucasian War which ended with the annexation of the khanate into Russia in 1864. During the Russian Empire, the settlement was the administrative capital of the Avarsky Okrug.

Khunzakh is considered the cultural heart of the Caucasian Avar region.

Heroes of Socialist Labor:

Khazha Murtuzalievna Lokalova, teacher of the Khunzakh secondary school, Hero of Socialist Labor.
Magomed Makhulovich Makhulov, Soviet statesman, Hero of Socialist Labor.

Political and military figures:

Saratan I, nutsal of the state formation Avar nutsalstvo.
Surakat I, Avar Nutsal, who ruled according to approximately one account, in the 11th century, according to others, in the 12th century or in the 13th century.
Bayar II, - the son of the Avar nutsal and Surakat.
Andunik I, the ruler of the Avar nutsaldom in the second half of the 15th century.
Umma Khan IV - - the ruler of the Avar Khanate at the beginning of the 18th century
Muhammad-nutsal IV -, ruler of the Avar Khanate from 1735 to 1774.
Umma Khan of Avar, nicknamed the Great or Mad - Avar Nutsal, ruler of the Avar Khanate from 1774 to 1801.
Hadji Murad - - military leader, Naib of Imam Shamil.
Maksud Alikhanov-Avarskiy, lieutenant general, governor of the Tiflis province.

Others