Kaspiisk
Kaspiisk
(until 1947, the settlement of Dvigatel’stroi), a city in Dagestan ASSR, located on the shore of the Caspian Sea, 18 km southeast of the city of Makhachalka. Population, 43, 000 (1972).
Kaspiisk has a plant producing precision machinery, a brickyard, and a heat and electric power plant. A department of the Dagestan Polytechnic Institute is also located there.