Andi is a large village in
the Botlikh region in
Dagestan
Dagestan ( ; ; ), officially the Republic of Dagestan, is a republic of Russia situated in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe, along the Caspian Sea. It is located north of the Greater Caucasus, and is a part of the North Caucasian Fede ...
, Russia
Geographical location
Located 14 km north-east of the village
Botlikh.
Population
The villagers are
Andis
''Andis'' and its variants ''Andio'', ''Andes'', etc., was a personal name popular among the Illyrians of Dardania, Pannonia, and Dalmatia. The god Andinus – considered to have been the Dardanian indigenous deity of vegetation and soil fertilit ...
(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 languages, Northeast Caucasian language belonging to the Avar–Andic languages, Avar–Andic branch spoken by about 5,800 ethnic Andi (people), Andi (2010) in the Botlikh people, Botlikh region of Dagestan. The langua ...
. In 1981, a linguistic expedition of the Faculty of Philology,
Moscow State University
Moscow State University (MSU), officially M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University,. is a public university, public research university in Moscow, Russia. The university includes 15 research institutes, 43 faculties, more than 300 departments, a ...
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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