Makhachkala

Makhachkala, previously known as Petrovskoye (1844–1857) and Port-Petrovsk (1857–1921), or by the local Kumyk name of Anji, is the capital and largest city of Dagestan, Russia. The city is located on the Caspian Sea, covering an area of , with a population of over 623,254 residents, while the urban agglomeration covers over , with a population of roughly 1 million residents. Makhachkala is the fourth-largest city in the Caucasus, the largest city in the North Caucasus and the North Caucasian Federal District, as well as the third-largest city on the Caspian Sea, after Baku and Rasht. The city

Hakikat () is the main Avar language newspaper, published in Makhachkala, Dagestan.

() is the main Kumyk language newspaper in Dagestan, Russia. It is the successor of the Soviet era (), which was an organ of the Dagestan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

daily republican socio-political newspaper in Russian, published in Dagestan