Endirey

Endirey (Russian: Эндирей; OKATO: 82254815001) is a village (selo) in the Khasavyurt District of the Republic of Dagestan in Russia. It is the center of the Endireyskoe Rural Settlement and has a population of 7,863 (2015).

Its current head is Salavatov Rustam Abdulvagidovich.

Endirey is a Turkic name. It was adopted by Daghestan in 1991, replacing the Soviet name Andreyaul (Андрейаул). Under Imperial Russia, its name had been Andreyevo (Андреево, Andreevo) after an early Cossack leader who supposedly settled there. Former spellings include Enderi,Enderee,Indiri and al-Indiri,Andreeva, and Andreewa. It has also been known as Andreevskii Awul.

Endirey lies at the foot of Mount Tshumlu on the Aktash River near Khasavyurt, just north of the Caucasus and just east of the Chechnian border. It lies about 45 miles (72 km) south of Kizliar and has a mean elevation of 40 meters (130 ft).

The area preserves the ruins of a fortress destroyed by Tamerlane during the Tokhtamysh–Timur war.

The early history Endirey is uncertain.Feodor I dispatched Prince Grigori Zasekin against the local shamkhal in 1591. His force of 5000 Russian musketeers and 10,000 Cherkesses captured and razed Andreyevo the next year, wounding the shamkhal. Relations with the nearby Circassians were, however, generally friendly prior to the Cossacks' submission to Peter the Great in 1712, after which raiding and invasions became more common. In a belated response to the 1707 burning of the Russian fort at Tarki, Peter the Great dispatched a unit of cavalry to occupy Endirey in 1722 as part of his Persian campaign. The force suffered a serious repulse and the area was left alone for several decades.

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