Kasumkent

Kasumkent (Russian: Касумкѐнт; Lezgian: Кьасумхуьр) is a village and the administrative center of Suleyman-Stalsky District of Republic of Dagestan, Russia.

It is the biggest inhabited locality in Suleyman-Stalsky District and had a population of 12,000 in 2002.

Some hundred of years ago he built a house for himself on the coast of the Chiragchay river among high trees.

According to the census of 1886, there were 116 houses in the village with a population of 623 consisting of 316 men and 307 women.

During the Russian Empire, the settlement was the administrative capital of the Kyurinsky Okrug.

Panorama of Kasumkent