Makhachkala, October 20, 2017. The day before, on October 18, the Ministry for National Policy of the Republic of Dagestan presented a handbook on the languages of the peoples of Dagestan. The materials of the publication contain data on the languages of the indigenous peoples living in the republic. The book also contain data on periodicals and published fiction in the languages of the peoples of republic for 2011-2016, etc. In Dagestan this is the first such guide ever issued.