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==History==
The first documented reference to Kizlyar dates back to 1609, although some historians associate the place with [[Samandar (city)|Samandar]], the 8th-century capital of [[Khazaria]].{{citation needed|date= February 2012}} In 1735 the Russian government built a [[fortress]] in Kizlyar and laid foundations for the [[Caucasus]] fortified borderline. In the 18th and 19th centuries, Kizlyar operated as one of the [[trading post]]s between Russia and the [[Middle East]] and [[Central Asia]]. During this period, the population was largely [[Armenians|Armenian]] and [[Russians|Russian]]. In 1796 2,800 Armenians and 1,000 Russians lived in Kizlyar.<ref>Jane Burbank and David L. Ransel, ''Imperial Russia: New Histories of the Empire'' (Indiana University Press, 1998), 160.</ref>
Kizlyar was the absolute farthest point where German`s Wermacht got into USSR during World War II in November 1942. The Wehrmacht halted at this point in order to settle in for winter positions. It would not advance again, later retreating so that they would not be cut off by the Soviet counterattack after their success in the Battle of Stalingrad.
In January 1996 Chechen separatists raided the local airbase in the course of the [[Kizlyar raid]], which claimed the lives of seventy-eight Russian soldiers.
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