Ashaga-Arag, also known as Juhuro-Arag, Lower Arag (,Х. Шайдабегова. Са касни, са затӏни рикӏелай алудзавач // Лезги газет. - 2011. - Вып. 11 (10448) (17 марта). ) is an abandoned Lezgins aul in the Suleyman-Stalsky District of Dagestan.
Geography The village is located in the foothills of the Suleiman Stalsky district.Excursion to historical places. Arag villageЮХАРИ-АРАГ (ВИНИ-АРАГ)Settlement of Mountain Jews in the 19th - early 21st centuriesArag village On the right bank of the Arag River, 2 km southwest of the village of Kasumkent.
History Ashaga-Arag is a historical Mountain-Jewish village.
Before Dagestan joined the Russian Empire, the village was part of the Kartas mahallah of the Kura Khanate. After the annexation of the Khanate to the Russian Empire, Ashaga-Arag was listed in the Kasumkent rural community of the Guney naib of the Kyurinsky district of the Dagestan region.
In 1895, the village consisted of 200 households, of which 115 households were Mountain Jews.E.I. Kozubsky. Memorial book of the Dagestan region. National Electronic Library. Temir-Khan-Shura (Buynaksk). Publisher: "Russian printing house." In the early 1900s, the village was divided into Jewish and Lezgin rural communities. After the 1917 revolution, most of the Jews left the village. According to the 1926 census, the village consisted of 124 households.
Administratively, it was the center of the Ashaga-Arag village council of the Kasumkent district.Data from the 1926 All-Union Population Census. In the 1930s, a state farm was created in the village, which until 1957 was named after Kashin, then “40 Years of October”. In 1964, the “Kasumkent” state farm was created.
In 1969, a decision was made on the planned resettlement of village residents to the village of Kasumkent.Kakagasanov G.I., Kaymarazova L.G., Butaev M.D., Dzhambulatova R.I. The agrarian question and the resettlement of the highlanders of Dagestan to the plain (1946-1995). Makhachkala: Science Plus, 2006. Vol. 2. p. 220
Population + Year1886Guney naib (1886 г.)1895 1908 V.V.Stratokov. Caucasian calendar for 1910. National Electronic Library. Tbilisi. Publisher: Lieberman and Co. 1926 1939List of populated places indicating the population according to the 1939 census for the Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Makhachkala. 1940. p. 192.1970 Population7131140 1310 590 50620
As of 1886, 100% of the village’s population were Mountain Jews. By 1895, their number in the village had decreased to 66% and remained virtually unchanged until the 1917 revolution.
According to the All-Union Population Census of 1926, in the national population structure Lezgins made up 71%, Mountain Jews - 29%.
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