Makhachkala is in a hurry to become a millionaire for new preferences A program aimed at achieving the status of a million-plus city for Makhachkala is already being prepared for implementation. The new status will allow the city to have access to a wider range of federal support measures, Dagestan head Fyodor Shchukin said in an interview with TASS. Shchukin added that today the official statistics and the real number of people living in Makhachkala are different.