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Gunib
Gunib is a village on a high mountain plateau in central Dagestan, Russia. It was Imam Shamil's last refuge, where on 6 September 1859 (25 August, Old Style) he surrendered to the Russian commander Prince Aleksandr Baryatinsky, ending the Caucasian Imamate. A stone marks the place of the surrender.
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