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Urban-type settlement in Dagestan, Russia

Tarki

Tarki formerly also spelled Tarkou and also known as Tarku, is an urban locality under the administrative jurisdiction of Sovetsky City District of the City of Makhachkala in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia, located on the Tarki-tau mountain.

Tarki
Tarki · Alexander Novikov
The place

Tarki formerly also spelled Tarkou and also known as Tarku, is an urban locality under the administrative jurisdiction of Sovetsky City District of the City of Makhachkala in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia, located on the Tarki-tau mountain. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 15,356.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Tarki

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Makhachkala Grand Mosque

    The Grand Mosque of Makhachkala or Yusuf Bei Camii is the main mosque of the Republic of Dagestan, located in Makhachkala, Russia.

    2.5 km · main mosque in Republic of Dagestan · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Dynamo Stadium

    Dynamo Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium. It is situated in Makhachkala, Russia.

    3.7 km · football stadium in Dagestan, Russia · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Tarki

Airports
Makhachkala Uytash (MCX), 19 km · Akhmat Kadyrov Grozny (GRV), 154 km · Tbilisi (TBS), 253 km
  • Grozny → Tarki
    152 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · ₽610–820
  • Astrakhan → Tarki
    381 km · quickest by air, 6h 28m · ₽5,370–8,330
  • Mineralnyye Vody → Tarki
    378 km · quickest by air, 6h 14m · ₽5,270–8,190
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Tarki

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Tarki. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThere are regular minibuses to Derbent (after filling, about every hour), there are other intercity options, but 1-2 times a day - you have to adjust or go through Makhachkala.
  • Get inYou still have to get to the city by taxi: theoretically, a minibus 320 calls into the airport, but in practice, neither its schedule nor even the interval is known.

From Wikivoyage: Kaspiysk, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-02.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Sheki (Şəki)AZ

    10 ways of moving, 46 sources

    196 km
  2. 02
    GoriGE

    10 ways of moving, 16 sources

    298 km
  3. 03
    GyumriAM

    12 ways of moving, 47 sources

    386 km
  4. 04
    Vardzia and the Javakheti plateauGE

    12 ways of moving, 57 sources

    388 km
  5. 05
    Mestia and Upper SvanetiGE

    10 ways of moving, 14 sources

    389 km

If you know how people move in Tarki – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Tarki

Tarki is 3 km from Makhachkala, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Makhachkalacity in Dagestan, Russia4 km
  • Kyakhulayhuman settlement in Russia2.2 km
  • Alburikenthuman settlement in Makhachkala Urban Okrug, Republic of Dagestan, Russia3.7 km
  • Novy Kyakhulayhuman settlement in Makhachkala Urban Okrug, Republic of Dagestan, Russia1.9 km
  • Agachaulvillage in Karabudakhkentsky District, Russia3.9 km