Endirey

Endirey (Russian: Эндирей; OKATO: 82254815001) is a village (selo) in the Khasavyurt District of the Republic of Dagestan in Russia.

Under Imperial Russia, its name had been Andreyevo (Андреево, Andreevo) after an early Cossack leader who supposedly settled there, a Russian source quotes many alleged explanations.

[6] Endirey lies at the foot of Mount Tshumlu[8] on the Aktash River near Khasavyurt, just north of the Caucasus and just east of the Chechen border.

[12] 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.

[13] 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.

[16][18] It supported Russian colonization of the area: the revolts the program provoked (as Imam Shamil's in the 1840s and Haji Mohammed's in 1877) were an expected consequence and were seen as permitting still greater relocation and resettlement.

Mosque in Endirey
An 1856 German map of the Russian Caucasus, including "Enderi" and "Wnesapnaja".