Dagestan 2007: Places of Dagestan

[Dr. Hendrei Gromsinger]

Feel free to add your own details, renderings, sketches, whatever, of places in RP Dagestan, in this thread. I'll look at them, and odds are, I'll have no problem with them and add them to the lore.

TOC:

1. Republic Square, Makhachkala - by Dr. Hendrei Gromsinger
2. The Green House, Makhachkala - by Dr. Hendrei Gromsinger
3. Dagestan Railways - by Dr. Hendrei Gromsinger
4. Makhachkala's buses - by Dr. Hendrei Gromsinger

[Dr. Hendrei Gromsinger]

Republic Square

This sketch is one I made very closely based on the RL orientation of places around Dagestan's local parliament. Most of these buildings do indeed serve the RL government, but we put them to different uses.


Green: Grass, trees, greenery.
Red: pedestrian walkways, plazas.
Grey: roads.
Blue: government buildings.
White arrows: denote directionality of streets. If no indication, assume the street is two-way.
Civilian buildings are not shown. Find them on Google Maps!

Streets

1. Batumskaya Street
2. Daniyalova A.D. Street
3. E. Kapiyeva Street
4. Mantasheva Street
5. Dakhadayeva Street
6. Respublika Square (no car traffic allowed)
7. Respublika Boulevard

Note: in Russian naming convention, streets are feminine. I'm leaving them feminine in English, for ease of transliteration.

Buildings

1. 1 Batumskaya: Some parliamentary offices, nondenominational space of worship of the Parliament.
2. 3-5 Batumskaya: Offices of the presidium of the Assembly (Speaker & assistants), other parliamentary offices.
3. 1 Respublika: Hall of the Dagestani People. Plenum of the Assembly, committee hearing rooms, most parliamentary offices.
4. 12A Daniyalova A.D.: Visitor center of the Assembly, main security facility.
5. 18 E. Kapiyeva: Magistrates' Court.
6. 3 Respublika: Parliamentary offices.
7. 2 Mantasheva: Office of the coalition whip, parliamentary offices of the deputy Prime Ministers.
8. 5 Respublika: Office of the Prime Minister.
9. 7 Respublika: Residence of the Prime Minister.
10. 4 Mantasheva: State guesthouse "Respublika" for distinguished visitors.

[Dr. Hendrei Gromsinger]

The Green House

In this compound, I did use 3D-modeling software to tweak the appearance of what exists IRL, since this plot is occupied in our timeline by the Russian Ministry of Emergency Services. However, the lots on 27 and 29 Gornaya are actually occupied by large buildings with green roofs, so that's cool.


Translucent blue, brown, dark green: buildings.
Dark grey: roads, including access road to the Green House.
Salmon: sidewalks.
Light green: gardens (including paths), lawns, wooded areas.
Not included: the security perimeter.


Streets

1. Yaragskogo Prezidentaya Street with BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) lanes
2. Gornaya Street
3. General Omarov Street with BRT lanes
4. Stroiteley Kora Street
5. Shosseynaya Street (no vehicle access)
6. President's Circle

Buildings

1. 27 Gornaya: Presidential offices, including the Council of Economic Advisors.
2. 29 Gornaya: the Green House. Presidential residence, President's personal office, President's political office.
3. 1 Shosseynaya: Visitor center with exhibits on Dagestani democracy.
4. 2 Shosseynaya: "Demokratiya" guest house for distinguished state's guests.
5. 128 Prezidentaya: Presidential office complex, including assorted bureaucracy.

I may go back and add renderings of the Presidential residence (3rd-4th floors of the Green House), or the garden.

[Dr. Hendrei Gromsinger]

Dagestan Railways

Click on the service you're interested in. Both have blurbs and maps.

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{Makhachkala Metro-Rail (Commuter Rail) }

Makhachkala is served by two lines of commuter rail, connecting it to nearby towns, including Buynaksk, Izberbash, Kaspiysk, and Kizilyurt.

Peak frequency is 4 tph (trains per hour) in each direction on each line during rush hour (7-9 AM, 5-7 PM), dropping to 1 tph in the early morning and midday hours (5-7 AM, 9 AM-5 PM), and 2 tph in the evening (7-10 PM).
Furthermore, during the late night, there is a 1 tph service on the red line, but only between Shamkhal and the Airport.

The Karabudakhent bus bridge is a nonstop bus from center of that town to the Manas railway station. It operates at a frequency of 2 services per hour, from Karabudakhent to Manas in the morning rush hour, and in the other direction in the evening.

Also shown are connections to the intercity railway service, Makhachkala's rapid buses (more on that in another post), and the airport (I'll upload the model from last time in another, other post). Not shown are connections to regular city and intercity buses.

Included is the English-language route map, as of March 2006, which is still current IRP.


Services are operated with modified Class 471 EMUs, made by Škoda. Such vehicles are used IRL in Lithuania and Ukraine (which, like Dagestan, have broad-gauge tracks).

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{Intercity Rail}

Dagestan also has intercity rail operations, connecting Makhachkala to Kizlyar and points further north (the northern line), the Khasavyurt metro area (the Khasavyurt line), and Derbent and points south (the coastal line). The system was mostly built during the Soviet era (IRL as in IRP) as the soviets invested quite a lot in their rail network.

There is freight rail on all of these, as well as the Buynaksk branch (served by commuter rail's red line). Passenger rail service divides into six services.

1. Green: Makhachkala-Derbent-Samur Super Express. Serves Derbent and points south during the morning and afternoon peak hours with 1 tph frequency, totaling 7 trains per day. 2 tpd (trains per day), in the morning and evening, continue onwards to Baku, Azerbaijan. Thanks to work undertaken in the Meyers era, trains on this service travel from Makhachkala to Derbent (130 km) in 54 minutes.
2. Red: Kizlyar-Makhachkala-Derbent Express. Serves the coastal line, as well as the northern line to Kizlyar, at 1 tph frequency. 1 tpd, southbound in the early morning and northbound in the late evening, continues north of Kizlyar to Artezian, Russia, where through cars attach to a sleeper service to Astrakhan and on to Moscow.
3. Dark Blue: Khasavyurt-Makhachkala-Derbent/Khazar Express. Serves the Khasavyurt and Coastal lines with 1 tph frequency, continuing to Khazar, south of Derbent.
4. Light Blue: Khasavyurt-Makhachkala-Derbent Local. Serves the Khasavyurt and Coastal lines with 1 tph frequency, rising to 2 tph during the morning and afternoon peaks. Operates all night, for 24-hour service.
5. Orange: Vpered/Kizlyar-Makhachkala-Izberbash Local. Serves the Northern line and portions of the Coastal line with 1 tph frequency, rising to 2 tph during the morning and afternoon peaks. Operates all night, for 24-hour service.
6. Purple: Berikey-Derbent-Samur Local. Serves the southern parts of the Coastal line with 1 tph frequency, rising to 3 tph during the morning and afternoon peaks. Only line not to serve Makhachkala and the Airport.

These services are operated with locomotive-hauled trains, mostly Soviet-era rolling stock.

Included is the route map as of October 2006, which is current IRP. the M icon denotes Makhachkala Metro-Rail. The airport icon is obvious, I think.

Note that these tracks and most of the stations exist IRL. If the new government wants to build new railroads, we can do that.

[Dr. Hendrei Gromsinger]

Makhachkala Bus System

IRP, as in IRL, Makhachkala is too small to support a proper subway system. It would simply be cost-prohibitive to build one for a city of this size. Instead, IRP, during the Zakharovich era, and onwards through the Volkov/Meyers and Volkov/Lobachenko governments, the city received a BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) system, comprised of BRT lanes running along some of the city's major streets, and a few roads serving as Busways, with only bus and cyclist/pedestrian traffic. The BRT lanes are used both by dedicated rapid buses, and by regular bus routes that only use the lanes for a portion of their runs.

Find the BRT lanes mapped here, alongside the train stations and a selection of other sites.

Images: a portion of the BRT network, in central Makhachkala (Left); a BRT stop (Right).



IRL, Makhachkala has an underdeveloped transit system and horrible traffic.

[Dr. Hendrei Gromsinger]

Makhachkala International Airport

Dagestan has one major airport - Uytash Airport, south of Makhachkala. However, IRP, it's a bit different.

In the early 90s, Zakharovich commissioned a renovation of the airport, the Zakharovich terminal. This project involved construction of a new terminal, miles of new taxiways, and a rerouting of 10 km of the coastal line to serve the Zakharovich terminal area. The project was ultimately scaled down during Yulia Meyers' tenure as minister of transportation, to a 22-gate facility opened in 1997.

During the Volkov-Meyers administration, the airport was further expanded to serve Dagestan's growing economy. The Zakharovich-era terminal was renamed as Concourse B, joined by Concourses A, C, D, and E. The expanded airport was opened in August 2005, just in time to be shuttered by the general strike of 2005. Its state reopening was held in February of 2006, by the provisional government.

The largest operator in Makhachkala is Dagestan Airways, operating out of Terminal 2. The company connects Makhachkala to destinations in Europe, the Middle East, the former USSR, and the Far East, as well as New York City. Dagestan Airways is a member of Star Alliance, partnering closely with that alliance's member airlines. During the Volkov-Meyers era, it was hoped to build the airline into a significant regional entity, connecting Europe to China and the Caucasus to the world, but those ambitions were not fully realized due to Dagestan's political instability. Nevertheless, Dagestan Airways has access to a clean, modern facility in Terminal 2, and a relatively modern, western-built fleet. The airline's regional operations (regional jets and turboprops, seating <100 passengers, mostly to destinations in the Caucasus) are branded as "DagestanConnect".
The airline presently operates Airbus A320-200, Airbus A321, and Airbus A319 aircraft in its mainline fleet, while DagestanConnect flights are operated using Bombardier Dash-8 Q400 and Bombardier CRJ-900 aircraft.

The airport is served by other carriers, with the biggest foreign carriers being Aeroflot, Emirates, and Lufthansa.

The airport is divided into two terminals.

Passengers arriving from "high-security" countries (such as North America and the EU) are able to connect to other flights without clearing security. Connecting passengers from other countries must re-clear security before boarding their next flight, for which purpose there are dedicated checkpoints in the Terminal 1 headhouse, the Terminal 2 headhouse, and the north end of Concourse D.

Terminal 1

Terminal 1 is the larger of the two, serving most foreign airlines. It includes two Concourses.

• Concourse A, with 7 gates, serves some widebody flights to the Far East, as well as smaller airliners serving destinations in the Caucasus and southern Russia. It is a comparatively spacious facility.
• Concourse B, with 22 gates, serves most other flights. Due to the densely-packed jetways, this Concourse is quite crowded at peak hours.

Terminal 2

Terminal 2 serves Dagestan Airways and its partners, and includes three concourses:

• Concourse C, with 7 gates, serves flights whose passengers are mostly traveling to/from Dagestan, and not connecting. It also includes many amenities (lounges, duty-free shopping) also used by travelers who fly out of Concourses D and E.
• Concourse D, with 6 gates, serves regional airliners. In addition to the above-ground connection to Concourse C (visible on the map), it is connected underground to Concourse E.
• Concourse E, with 11 gates, serves flights with relatively many connecting passengers. It boasts considerable seating area.

Note: most A-, C-, and E-gates can serve either one widebody jet or two narrowbodies (Boeing 737/Airbus A320 family and smaller). The exceptions are A1-4, which can each serve up to two regional airliners, C1, which can serve up to five regional airliners, and E11, which can serve two widebodies.
The D-gates, like A1-4, can each serve two regional airliners each.

Both terminals and all concourses are connected airside (after security). On the landside, a shuttle bus (marked in red) connects the terminals to each other, the parking structure, and the nearby railway station. Makhachkala city buses serve both terminals.

A map of the airfield

A map of the Terminal Area and facilities

A map of the Terminals


Airlines and Destinations

Airline	Destinations	Concourse
Aeroflot	Krasnodar, Moscow-Vnukovo, Moscow-Sheremeteyevo, Novy Urgenoy Seasonal: Saint Petersburg, Surgut	A
Air Astana	Almaty	B
Air Canada	Seasonal: Toronto-Pearson	C
Air China	Beijing-Capital	A
Air France	Paris - Charles De Gaulle	B
All Nippon Airways	Tokyo-Narita	C
Armenia Airways	Yerevan	A
Azerbaijan Airlines	Baku	A
Belavia	Seasonal: Minsk	B
British Airways	London-Gatwick	B
Cathay Pacific	Hong Kong	A
Dagestan Airways	Almaty, Amsterdam, Beijing-Capital, Berlin-Tegel, Baghdad, Brussels, Cairo, Chongqing, Delhi, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Istanbul, London-Heathrow, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Domodedovo, Moscow-Vnukovo, Mumbai, New York-JFK, Novy Urengoy, Paris-Charles De Gaulle, Rome-Fiumicino, Saint Petersburg, Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai, Surgut, Tel Aviv, Urumqi, Vienna Seasonal: Athens, Irkutsk, Jeddah, Prague, Washington-Dulles	C, E
Dagestan Airways dba DagestanConnect	Aktau, Amman, Anapa, Ankara, Astrakhan, Beirut, Dalaman, Damascus, Erbil, Ganja, Kazan, Kiev-Boryspil, Krasnodar, Kuwait, Mashhad, Mineralye Vody, Minsk, Nakhchivan, Orenburg, Riga, Riyadh, Rostov-on-Don, Tabriz, Tashkent, Tbilisi, Volgograd, Warsaw, Yekaterinburg, Yerevan Seasonal: Antalya, Lviv, Sochi	C, D
Emirates	Dubai	B
Georgian Airways	Tbilisi	A
IrAero	Orenburg Seasonal: Chelyabinsk, Yekaterinburg	B
Iran Air	Tehran-Imam Khomeini	B
KLM	Seasonal: Amsterdam	B
LOT Polish Airways	Seasonal: Warsaw	B
Lufthansa	Frankfurt, Munich	C
S7 Airlines	Novosibirsk	A
SAS	Seasonal: Copenhagen, Stockholm	C
Singapore Airlines	Singapore-Changi	E
Swiss	Zurich	C
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul	B
Ukraine International Airlines	Kiev-Boryspil	B
United Airlines	Chicago-O'Hare	C
Ural Airlines	Seasonal: Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Omsk, Perm	B
Utair	Mineralye Vody, Moscow-Vnukovo	B
Uzbekistan Airways	Tashkent	B

[Dr. Hendrei Gromsinger]

The Mean Streets of Makhachkala

A couple of Makhachkala's streets were named after awfully Soviet things (Vladimir Lenin, the Soviet youth organization Komsomol), so I renamed these. Another just happened to lead to the Green House, so it too got renamed.

This is marked on this map.

Dagestan has other places named after Lenin and otherwise Russian names. We can talk (IC or OOC) about what to do with the Leninsky ward of Makhachkala, the city of Leninkent, and the city of Lenino, for example.