# Gunib

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{{Short description|Village in Dagestan, Russia}}
{{Coord|42|23|12|N|46|57|42|E|display=title}}
thumb|Modern view of Gunib
[[File:PG - Dagestan. Shamil's village (colour).jpg|thumb|A photograph of Gunib by [Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky](/source/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky) (between 1905 and 1915)]]

'''Gunib''' ({{langx|av|Гъуниб}}), also spelled '''Ghunib''',<ref>e.g., [Francis Galton](/source/Francis_Galton), ''Vacation Tourists and Notes of Travel in 1860 [1861, 1862-3]'', Vol. 3, p. 81; Moshe Gammer, ''Muslim Resistance to the Tsar: Shamil and the Conquest of Chechnia and Daghestan'' (Taylor & Francis, 2003; {{ISBN|0714681415}}), p. 277.</ref>  is a [rural locality](/source/types_of_inhabited_localities_in_Russia) (a ''[selo](/source/village)'') and the [administrative center](/source/administrative_center) of [Ghunib District](/source/Gunibsky_District) of the [Republic of Daghestan](/source/Republic_of_Daghestan). Population: {{ru-census|2010=2,271|p2002=2,406|p1989=2,405}} After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the population of Gunib went into decline. Only in 2014 did it reach its Soviet-era population again.

==History==

Ghunib was historically important as a natural fortress during the [Caucasian War](/source/Caucasian_War) of the 19th century. [Imam Shamil](/source/Imam_Shamil), leader of the [Chechen](/source/Chechen_people) and Daghestani tribes, made his last stand against the [Russians](/source/Russian_Empire) at Ghunib, where he gave himself up to the Russian commander, Prince [Alexander Baryatinsky](/source/Aleksandr_Baryatinsky), on 25 August 1859. The name is derived from the [Avar](/source/Avar_language) word ''Guni-meer'' which translates to ''heap of stones''.
[Olga Forsh](/source/Olga_Forsh) was born in Ghunib in 1873.

In 1895, the town housed the barracks of the Samur regiment and the Terek-Dagestan fortress artillery, and grew into a self-sufficient entity with merchants, conscripts, an Orthodox church, and a post office. During the [Russian Empire](/source/Russian_Empire), the settlement was the administrative capital of the [Gunibsky Okrug](/source/Gunibsky_Okrug).

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