Dagestan
About Dagestan
Dagestan, officially the Republic of Dagestan, is a republic of Russia situated in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe, along the Caspian Sea. It is located north of the Greater Caucasus, and is a part of the North Caucasian Federal District. The republic is the southernmost tip of Russia, sharing land borders with the countries of Azerbaijan and Georgia to the south and southwest, the Russian republics of Chechnya and Kalmykia to the west and north, and with Stavropol Krai to the northwest. Makhachkala is the republic's capital and largest city; other major cities are Derbent, Kizlyar, Izberbash, Kaspiysk, and Buynaksk.
On the show — 6 mentions total
This is a village called Sovklaedin, and it's in Dagestan, so it's in the south of Russia. The population is about 400 and everyone knows how to tightrope walk.
from 62: No Such Thing As The Ugly Panda, 2015-05-22 at 00:10:04 · read transcript
Other times Dagestan came up
This is a team based in the town of Yuzhno Sakhalinsk, which is in a far, far, far east of Russia, and they're in the third division of Russian football, and the way the third division works in Russia is it's such a big country, they want all the teams to be kind of close together, because otherwise you have to spend so much money travelling. They put all the teams that are next to each other, playing each other, but unfortunately there's no one else around this town of Yuzhno Sakhalinsk, and so they've been put in with all the teams around the Black Sea and around Dagestan and stuff like that.
351: No Such Thing As Pop Charts for Bagpipers, 2020-12-11 · listen
Coordinates: 42.9839, 47.5050