2297 Daghestan (1978 RE) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 1 1978 by N. S. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory. It is aptly named after the Dagestan ASSR the regional government of Dagestan during the former Soviet Union.
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