Tabasaransky District () is an administrativeLaw #16 and municipalLaw #6 district (raion), one of the forty-one in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia. It is located in the southeast of the republic. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Khuchni. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 52,886, with the population of Khuchni accounting for 6.1% of that number.
Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divisions, Tabasaransky District is one of the forty-one in the Republic of Dagestan. The district is divided into eighteen selsoviets which comprise seventy-four rural localities. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Tabasaransky Municipal District. Its eighteen selsoviets are incorporated as twenty-two rural settlements within the municipal district. The selo of Khuchni serves as the administrative center of both the administrative and municipal district.
Archaeology The multilayered Paleolithic site of Tinit-1Derevyanko A. P., Anoykin A. A., Slavinsky V. S., Borisov M. A., Kulik N. A. "Tinit-1 — a new multilayered Paleolithic site in the Rubas River valley" is located 0.5 km northeast of the village of Tinit, on the left bank of a stream that flows along the northwestern spurs of the Karasyurt Range before emptying into the Rubas River. According to absolute dating, the lower archaeological horizons of the Tinit-1 site are more than 43,700 years old.Rybalko A. G., Kandyba A. V., Anoykin A. A.
The multilayered Paleolithic site of Rubas-1 is located 3 km upstream from the village of Chulat, along the Rubas River. The formation of the cultural-bearing layer at the Rubas-1 complex began during the final stage of the of the Caspian Sea, approximately 2.2–2.3 million years ago. This makes the Rubas-1 complex one of the oldest known archaeological industries in the Caucasus and Eurasia as a whole. An absolute date obtained from an ash horizon within landslide deposits of the Rubas River is 1.5 ± 0.04 million years ago.Derevyanko A. P., Anoykin A. A., Kazansky A. Yu., Matasova G. G.
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