Vachi
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Vachi (Russian: Вачи; Lak: Ваччи) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Kulinsky District of the Republic of Dagestan, Russia. Population: 817 (2010 Census);[1] 667 (2002 Census);[2] 786 (1989 Soviet census).[3] The population is predominantly Lak.
It was founded about 1,500 years ago, and was perhaps named after King Vache of Caucasian Albania. Vachi was famous for talented artisans: shoemakers, tailors, tinsmith, blacksmith who traveled to the lowlands of Dagestan and other regions of the Caucasus. In 1926, an elementary school opened in Vachi.
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