Gamsutl
Village
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Gamsutl (Russian: Гамсутль, romanized: Gamsutl'; Avar: Гъамсукь, romanized: Ghamsuk) is a ghost town in the Gunibsky District of Dagestan, Russia, that lies on Mount Gamsutlmeer at an altitude of roughly 1,400 meters above sea level.[1]
Gamsutl
Гамсутль Гъамсукь | |
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village | |
Abandoned Gamsutl in 2018 | |
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| Coordinates: 42°18′10″N 46°59′47″E | |
| Elevation | 1,400 m (4,600 ft) |
| Population | |
• Total | 0 |
History
'Gamsutl' in Avar language means "at the foot of the khan's fortress".[2]
The exact age of the village is unknown,[3] but it is considered to be one of the oldest settlements in Dagestan, being 2,000 to 5,000 years old.[1] In its peak, the village consisted of 300 homes[1] with up to 3,000 inhabitants.[3] In the 20th century the village had shops, a post office, and a hospital.[2][1] In the late 1950s people began to leave the village; the number of inhabitants fell to 200 in 1970 and to 17 in 2002.[3] In 2015, the village's last resident, Abdulzhalil Abdulzhalilov, died.[1] He called himself mayor and became quite famous after a series of television reports.[3][4] Now Gamsutl is uninhabited and visited only by tourists.[1]