Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
| Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Дагестанская АССР (Russian) جمهورية داغستان الاشتراكية السوفيتية ذاتية الحكم (Arabic) Дагъистаналъул АССР (Avar) Дагъыстан АССР (Kumyk) Дагъустандин АССР (Lezgian) Дагъусттаннал АССР (Lak) Дағыстан МССР (Azerbaijani) Дагъистан АССР (Dargwa) ДегӀастанан АССР (Chechen) Дагыстан АССР (Nogai) Дагъустан АССР (Tabassaran) Догъисту АССР (Muslim Tat) | |||||||||||
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| ASSR of the Russian SFSR Republic of the Russian Federation | |||||||||||
| 1921–1992 | |||||||||||
Map of the Dagestan ASSR in European Soviet Union, the same territory as the actual Republic of Dagestan ASSR | |||||||||||
| Capital | Mahachkala | ||||||||||
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| • Coordinates | 42°59′00″N 47°29′00″E / 42.9833°N 47.4833°E | ||||||||||
| • Type | Soviet republic | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
• Established | 20 January 1921 | ||||||||||
• Sovereignty declared (Renamed to the Dagestan SSR) | 13 May 1991 | ||||||||||
• Renamed to the Republic of Dagestan | 30 July 1992 | ||||||||||
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The Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1921–1991), abbreviated as Dagestan ASSR or DASSR and also unofficially known as Soviet Dagestan or just simply Dagestan, was an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR within the Soviet Union. This "Land of Mountains" was known also for having a "mountain of peoples," with more than thirty ethnic groups indigenous to the territory. This region was absorbed in to the Russian Empire in 1813 after the signing of the Treaty of Gulistan, and subsequently became a breeding ground for early revolutionary fervor in the Russian Revolution due its people's discontent with being part of the empire.
Although as part of its strategy to promote local languages and to discourage pan-Turkic and pan-Islamic movements, a half-dozen of these ethnicities were provided with schooling in their native language. At some point in Soviet history, Russian became the most widespread second language and gradually the lingua franca, especially in urban areas.
The minor planet 2297 Dagestan, discovered in 1978 by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Chernykh, is named after the Dagestan ASSR.