Where to Stay in Kizilyurt, Dagestan

What is Kizilyurt known for?

The Sulak cascade of hydro plants counts among its enterprises, as do the Dagelektroavtomat works and its stone-crushing plants. Judo has a republican sports school of Olympic reserve in the town. Its notable people include the Olympic judo champion Tagir Khaybulaev and the mixed martial artists Umar Nurmagomedov and Usman Nurmagomedov.

What are the main landmarks in Kizilyurt?

Kizilyurt has a town House of Culture and a park of culture and rest. Outside the town, in Kizilyurtovsky District above the hot spring Iss-Su, the community of Tarki built a ziyarat in 2020 over the grave of Sultan-Mahmud of Endirey, and many pilgrims visit it. A son of the Tarki shamkhal Chopan I, he founded the Endirey principality and defeated an army sent by Boris Godunov at the Battle of Karaman.

Sultan-Mahmud died in 1643. Tourist routes from the town lead to the reservoir of the Chirkey hydroelectric station and to the mountain oak grove near Dubki.

What is the history of Kizilyurt?

Kizilyurt began in 1927 as the settlement of Krasny, split off from the village of Novo-Aleksandrovka and named Kizil-Yurt. The name is an artificial, ideological coinage from Kumyk, in which kyzyl means red and yurt means village. Kizil-Yurt was classed as a workers' settlement on 19 April 1960.

Two neighbours had appeared in 1958: Bavtugay, the town of the builders of the Chiryurt hydroelectric station, and Novyy Sulak, which grew up with the construction of the Dagelektroavtomat works. In 1963 Kizil-Yurt became a town of the republic, taking in the Bavtugay settlement council and the settlement of the Chir-Yurt railway station. Sulakograd and Vishnevsk were proposed as names.

Vishnevsk would have honoured the academician A. V. Vishnevsky, born in neighbouring Novo-Aleksandrovka. Bavtugay was set apart again by a decision of 11 June 1991 and Novyy Sulak became an urban-type settlement in 1992, both within the urban okrug of Kizilyurt. Stary Bavtugay split off in 1994.

Where is Kizilyurt?

Kizilyurt lies where the north-flowing Sulak River leaves the mountains for the Terek-Sulak Lowland. Kizilyurt is the seat of Kizilyurtovsky District without belonging to it. With its two urban-type settlements and the village of Stary Bavtugay, the town forms the Town of Kizilyurt, an administrative unit of the Republic of Dagestan equal in status to its districts.

What is Kizilyurt like?

Schools of arts, an art school and a music school serve Kizilyurt and its settlements, along with a central library system with branches across them. Sport has its own halls, schools and the Olimpiets sports boarding school. In 2005 the district held a Battle of Karaman jubilee in Kizilyurt.

What is the climate of Kizilyurt?

Kizilyurt has a hot-summer humid continental climate, very close to a cool semi-arid one. Summers are hot, and the winter is short and moderately cold, with snow lying for only part of it. Kizilyurt's frost-free season is long.

Rainfall is low, and the wind blows mostly from the east or the west.

How do you get to Kizilyurt?

Kizilyurt stands on the Rostov-Baku main line. A section of the North Caucasus Railway runs through Novyy Sulak, the western suburb, which has the Kavkaz road to its south. The R217 Kavkaz federal highway passes south of the town itself and north of Bavtugay, the southern settlement of the urban okrug.