Andi is a large village in
the Botlikh region in
Dagestan
Dagestan ( ; rus, Дагеста́н, , dəɡʲɪˈstan, links=yes), officially the Republic of Dagestan (russian: Респу́блика Дагеста́н, Respúblika Dagestán, links=no), is a republic of Russia situated in the North C ...
, Russia
Geographical location
Located 14 km north-east of the village
Botlikh.
Population
The villagers are
Andis
''Andis'' is a variant of Andes, a personal name popular among the Illyrians inhabiting the territory of what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina, more specifically the southern parts of ancient province of Pannonia and much of the northern parts of anci ...
(censuses may be marked as
Avars). Before the deportation, a large number of Chechens lived there, including the Kharchievs, Sultanovs, Izrailovs, Makhmudovs, Mamaevs, Musalaevs, Apraev-Mamedov, Valiev, Gelegaev, Guchigov, Abdukerimov, Gelichaev, Mamedkhanov.
Language
The villagers speak the
Andi language
Andi is a Northeast Caucasian language belonging to the Avar–Andic branch spoken by about 5,800 ethnic Andi (2010) in the Botlikh region of Dagestan. The language is spoken in the villages Andi (along the river Andi-Koisu), Gunkha, Gagatl, ...
. In 1981, a linguistic expedition of the Faculty of Philology,
Moscow State University
M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...
was led by
A. E. Kibrika.
[ Vladimir Borshchev]
Expedition to Andi, August 1981
(memories)
Famous natives
* — Soviet and Russian archaeologist, a specialist in the Paleolithic of the Caucasus and the Middle East.
* — fighter of the self-defense detachment of his native village, Hero of the Russian Federation (1999, posthumous).
* – deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the VI convocation.
Notes
Sources
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Rural localities in Botlikhsky District
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