Makhachkala
Proper noun
Meaning
Makhachkala
The capital and largest city of Daghestan, Russia.
Examples
Kamalov, founder of a newspaper in Russia's North Caucasus critical of authorities, was gunned down outside his office in Makhachkala, capital of the Dagestan region, in December 2011.
The incident comes only three days after a huge explosion caused by a gas leak at a banquet hall in the regional capital Makhachkala left 27 people seriously injured.
They held a round table in Makhachkala where it was declared that laying of an 83-kilometer-long Avar-Kakheti road would cost 28-32 million Russian Rubles and it’d connect Makhachkala with Tbilisi and its length would be only 470 kilometers.
The 2012–13 season started in the Europa League with a qualifying play-off round against Guus Hiddinks Anzhi Makhachkala ; AZ were hammered 6–0 on aggregate.