Kurush
Kurush is a mountain village located in the Dokuzparinsky District, in southern Dagestan. Situated at 2480–2560 m above sea level depending on the source, it is the highest continuously inhabited settlement of the Greater Caucasus and of Europe as well as the southernmost settlement in Russia.- Type: Village with 813 residents
- Description: human settlement in Dokuzparinsky District, Republic of Dagestan, Russia
- Also known as: “Kurush, Dokuzparinsky District, Republic of Dagestan”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tekipirkent.
Tekipirkent
Hamlet
Tekipirkent is a rural locality in Mikrakhsky Selsoviet, Dokuzparinsky District, Republic of Dagestan, Russia. The population was 282 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Tekipirkent is situated 8 km northeast of Kurush.
Kurush
- Categories: administrative divisions of Russia, residential area, and locality
- Location: Dagestan, North Caucasus, Southern Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude
41.28198° or 41° 16′ 55″ north
Longitude
47.83286° or 47° 49′ 58″ east
Population
813
Open location code
8HH97RJM+Q4
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residential
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Ukrainian—“Kurush” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Kurus”
- Arabic: “كوروش (روسيا)”
- Arabic: “كوروش”
- Avaric: “Къуруш”
- Azerbaijani: “Quruş”
- Chinese: “库鲁什”
- Chinese: “庫魯什”
- Dutch: “Koeroesj”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كوروش”
- Erzya: “Куруш (Докузпаронь буе)”
- Erzya: “Куруш”
- Estonian: “Kuruš”
- French: “Kourouch”
- German: “Kurusch”
- Italian: “Kuruš”
- Italian: “Kurush”
- Lezghian: “Къуруш”
- Lithuanian: “Kurušas (Dagestanas)”
- Lithuanian: “Kurušas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kurusj”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kurusj”
- Ossetian: “Куруш (Докузпарайы район)”
- Ossetian: “Куруш”
- Persian: “کوروش (روسیه)”
- Persian: “کوروش”
- Polish: “Kurusz”
- Russian: “Куруш”
- Serbian: “Куруш (Русија)”
- Serbian: “Куруш”
- Turkish: “Kuruş (Dokuzpar, Dağıstan)”
- Turkish: “Kuruş”
- Ukrainian: “Куруш (Докузпаринський район)”
- Ukrainian: “Куруш”
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