the name of the Russian Tsar-reformer, Peter the Great. In 1722, during the Persian campaign, the great king visited these places. The Russian Emperor liked the quiet and comfortable Bay at the foot of the Angi-ARKA mountain. It is said that on the site of the present lighthouse, he left a stone and ordered everyone who was with him to do the same. And there on the mountain Anji-ARKA the new military post, called Peter. The highlanders called this fortress Anji Kala.The countdown of its history the city leads from 1844, but the birthday of its capital Makhachkala still believe October 24, 1857. On this day The port-Peter's fortification became the city of Port-Petrovsky. In the nineteenth century there was a convenient Harbor, later-the railway connecting Port-Petrovsk with Vladikavkaz and other cities of Imperial Russia.