Characteristics of the urban environment in and issues in the creation of a green shield around the city of Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia

Sluka Alexandrovich,Eldarov Magomedovich,Sarkarov Zabitovich

doi:10.5937/zrgfub2169005a

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Abstract

This paper addresses issues of beautifying the capital of Dagestan, Makhachkala, and boosting nature conservation in that city. An insight is provided into the following characteristics of the city's socio-economic and environmental development: the prevalence of haphazard rather than consistent patterns in the development of the living environment of Makhachkala residents and an extreme lack of funding for nature conservation activities. The four key sites within Makhachkala's potential "green shield" are (1) Eltav Forest in the northwest; (2) the Caspian Sea with its sandy beaches in the northeast; (3) Lake Ak-Gel in the southeast; (4) Tarki-Tau Mountain in the southwest. The need is stressed for creative management decisions that will take full account of the ethnocultural and ethnopsychological characteristics of the city's urban environment.

Highlights

While many large cities are places with serious social, economic, and environmental issues, many of them are generators of innovation andSo far, relevant ordinances on the creation of forest-and-park green belts around large cities have been adopted in 63 of Russia’s constituent regions
Whereas in the period 1979–1989 its population rose from 251,000 to 315,000, i.e. around 26%, in the intercensal periods 1989– 2002 and 2002–2010 it rose from 337,000 to 378,000 (12%) and from 378,000 to 697,000 (84%), respectively4,5 (Ionov, 2020). Factors such as the extensive natural reproduction of its population and a massive migration from the countryside to Makhachkala, coupled with extensive residential construction, have led to the capital virtually swallowing up Kaspiysk, its satellite city, and many of the nearby townships. This has led to the emergence of the Makhachkala agglomeration – one of the largest in the south of Russia and the largest in the North Caucasian Federal District (Zubarevich, Safronov 2019)
The effort was soon exposed as a fraud by residents of Makhachkala, with the fraudulent plan found to be as follows: build an Orthodox Christian temple in order to morally justify the construction activity in the lake’s water conservation and protected shoreline areas, which was being carried out in flagrant violation of Russia’s Water Code

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Introduction

While many large cities are places with serious social, economic, and environmental issues, many of them are generators of innovation andSo far, relevant ordinances on the creation of forest-and-park green belts around large cities have been adopted in 63 of Russia’s constituent regions. The major sites within the “green shield” tied to the geo-environmental landmarks in the capital of Dagestan are as follows: (1) Eltav Forest and the road to the township of Sulak – northwest; (2) the Caspian Sea with Makhachkala beaches – northeast; (3) Lake Ak-Gel and the road to the city of Derbent – southeast; (4) Tarki-Tau Mountain – southwest.

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