Sogratl

Sogratl is located 25 km south of Gunib (the district's administrative centre) by road, on the Tsamtichay River. Obokh and Shangoda are the nearest rural localities.^[4]

• Hero of the Russian Federation, honored test pilot of Russia, Magomed Tolboev (born 1951);

• Hero of the Russian Federation, test pilot Taigib Tolboev (1955–2021);

• Hero of Socialist Labor, Kamil Magomedov (born 1904);

• Honored Doctor of the RSFSR, People’s Doctor of Dagestan, Honorary Citizen of the City of Makhachkala, Rizvan Karimov (born 1924);

• People’s Teacher of the USSR, A. Utsov;

• Sheikh-ul-Islam Abdurakhman-Haji as-Suguri (1792–1882);

• 4th Imam of Dagestan and Chechnya, son of Abdurakhman-Haji, Muhammad-Haji (1839–1877);

• Scholars: Mahdi-Magomed (died 1837), Haji Muhammad Haji (died 1870), Ali-Riza, Dibir-Kadi, Nurmagomed Avarsky, Shaitan-Abdulla, and others;

• Magomed Akhmedovich Karimov, Judge of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation;

• Gamzat Magomedovich Gamzatov (August 25, 1938, Makhachkala, DASSR, RSFSR, USSR – July 3, 2018, Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia). In 1993, he became the General Director of OAO “Dagenergo.” Member of the State Council of Dagestan for two terms (1998, 2002).