Gunib
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Modern view of Gunib
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A photograph of Gunib by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (between 1905 and 1915)
Gunib (Russian: Гуниб), also spelled Ghunib,[1] is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Gunibsky District of the Republic of Dagestan, Russia. Population: 2,406 (2002 Census);[2] 2,405 (1989 Census).[3]
Gunib was historically important as a natural fortress during the Caucasian War of the 19th century. Imam Shamil, leader of the Chechen and Daghestani tribes, made his last stand against the Russians at Gunib, where he gave himself up to the Russian commander, Prince Alexander Baryatinsky, on August 25, 1859.
Olga Forsh was born in Gunib in 1873.
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- ↑ e.g., Francis Galton, Vacation Tourists and Notes of Travel in 1860 [1861, 1862-3], Vol. 3, p. 81; Moshe Gammer, Muslim Resistance to the Tsar: Shamil and the Conquest of Chechnia and Daghestan (Taylor & Francis, 2003; ISBN 0714681415), p. 277.
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