Engel-Yurt
43°19′37″N 46°21′14″E / 43.32694°N 46.35389°E Engel-Yurt (Russian: Энгель-Юрт, romanized: Engel'-Yurt, Chechen: Энгал-Юрт, romanized: Engal-Yurt,[1]) is a rural locality (a selo) in Gudermessky District, Chechnya.
Administrative and municipal status
[edit]Municipally, Engel-Yurt is incorporated as Engel-Yurtovskoye rural settlement. It is the administrative center of the municipality and is the only settlement included in it.[2]
Geography
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Engel-Yurt is located on the left bank of the Aksai River, not far from the border with Dagestan. It is 24 kilometres (15 mi) east of the city of Gudermes and 60 kilometres (37 mi) north-east of the city of Grozny.
The nearest settlements to Engel-Yurt are Khangish-Yurt and Azamat-Yurt in the north-west, Karasuv-Otar in the north, Aksai in the north-east, Razak-Otar in the east, Gerzel-Aul in the south-east, and Kadi-Yurt and Biltoy-Yurt in the south-west.[3]
History
[edit]Engel-Yurt was founded in 1770.
In 1944, after the genocide and deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was abolished, the village of Engel-Yurt was renamed, and was settled by people from the neighbouring republic of Dagestan.[4] From 1944 to 1957, it was a part of the Dagestan ASSR.
In 1957, when the Vaynakh people returned and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was restored, the village regained its old name, Engel-Yurt.[5]
Population
[edit]According to the results of the 2010 Census, the majority of residents of Engel-Yurt were ethnic Chechens.
Teips
[edit]Residents of Engel-Yurt come from the following teips:
- Aitkhalloy
- Engenoy
- Kurchaloy
- Biltoy
- Zandakoy
- Shonoy
Education
[edit]Engel-Yurt hosts two secondary schools.
References
[edit]- ^ "Ярташ". "Даймохк" газет (in Russian).
- ^ "Сельское поселение Энгель-Юртовское (Чеченская Республика)". www.bankgorodov.com.
- ^ "Карта Чеченской республики подробная с районами, селами и городами. Схема и спутник онлайн". 1maps.ru.
- ^ "Потери вооруженных сил России и СССР в вооруженных конфликтах на Северном Кавказе (1920-2000 годы)". www.demoscope.ru.
- ^ "О восстановлении Чечено-Ингушской АССР и упразднении Грозненской области". lawru.info (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2019-08-06. Retrieved 2019-11-03.
- ^ "Наши издания - Архивное управление Правительства Чеченской Республики". arhiv-chr.ru.
- ^ Kashnitsky, Ilya (11 April 2017). "Municipality level Russian Census data 2002 and 2010". doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/CSKMU.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "ВПН-2010". www.gks.ru.