Темир Хан Шура (Буйнакск) / Temir Khan Shura (Buynaksk) -1900s

Россия на дореволюционных фотографиях Темир Хан Шура Буйнакск 1900-е Russia in pre-revolutionary photographs Temir Khan Shura Buynaksk 1900s Music: Amazing play on Panduri - Misha Tsitelashvili Buynaksk is a town in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia, located at the foothills of the Greater Caucasus on the Shura-Ozen River, 40 kms southwest of the republic's capital Makhachkala. Before t1922, the town was known as Temir Khan Shura, after the lake or cliff of Tamerlane who is said to have camped here in 1396 after defeating Tokhtamysh during the Tokhtamysh-Timur war. The settlement was first mentioned in Russian annals in the 1590s when Muscovite ambassadors passed nearby on their way to Georgia. In 1830 the Russians destroyed it when it sided with Kazi Mulla. In 1832 a Russian force under Klugenau camped here during Rosen's raid on Gimry. In 1834 Klugenau built a fort on the rock above the lake and it soon became the headquarters of the Apsheron Regiment and the most important Russian fort in the interior of Degestan during the Murid War. In 1849 Hadji Murad led a daring raid into the town. The place was unhealthy and Argutinsky drained the lake in 1858 to prevent the spread of disease. Temir Khan Shura was granted town status in 1866.