| Gamsutl | |
| Native Name: | Гамсутль Гъамсукь |
| Native Name Lang: | ru |
| Settlement Type: | village |
| Pushpin Map: | Russia Dagestan#European Russia#Europe |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Gamsutl in Dagestan##Location of Gamsutl in Russia##Location of Gamsutl in Europe |
| Coordinates: | 42.3028°N 46.9964°W |
| Extinct Date: | 2016 |
| Elevation M: | 1400 |
| Population Total: | 0 |
Gamsutl (ru|Гамсутль|Gamsutl'; av|Гъамсукь|Ghamsuk) is a ghost town in the Gunibsky district of Dagestan, Russia, that lies on Mount Gamsutlmeer at an altitude of roughly 1,400 meters above sea level.[1]
'Gamsutl' in Avar language means "at the foot of the khan's fortress".[2]
The exact age of the village is unknown,[3] but it is considered to be one of the oldest settlements in Dagestan, being 2,000 to 5,000 years old.[1] In its peak, the village consisted of 300 homes[1] with up to 3,000 inhabitants.[3] In the 20th century the village had shops, a post office, and a hospital.[2] [1] In the late 1950s people began to leave the village; the number of inhabitants fell to 200 in 1970 and to 17 in 2002.[3] In 2015, the village's last resident, Abdulzhalil Abdulzhalilov, died.[1] He called himself mayor and became quite famous after a series of television reports.[3] [4] Now Gamsutl is uninhabited and visited only by tourists.[1]