Assinovskaya

Coordinates: 43°14′07″N 45°10′55″E / 43.23528°N 45.18194°E / 43.23528; 45.18194

The entrance to Assinovskaya.

Assinovskaya (Russian: Ассиновская, Chechen: Эха-Борзе)^[1] is a rural locality (a stanitsa) in Sunzhensky District, Chechnya.

Administrative and municipal status[]

Municipally, Assinovskaya is incorporated as . It is the administrative center of the municipality and is the only settlement included in it.^[2]

Geography[]

Map of Sunzhensky District, Chechnya. Assinovskaya is in the south

The village of Assinovskaya is located on the left bank of the Assa River (hence the name). It is located 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) south of the village of Sernovodskoye and 45 kilometres (28 mi) west of the city of Grozny.

The nearest settlements to Assinovskaya are Sernovodskoye in the north, Novy Sharoy in the east, Achkhoy-Martan in the south-east, Bamut in the south, and and Nesterovskaya in the west.^[3]

History[]

The village of Assinovskaya was founded in 1847 on the land of the Karabulak aul of Akh-Borzoy.^[4][5] According to official maps at the time, the aul and the village existed simultaneously, so on the map of the for 1871, there are the village of Assinskaya and the aul of Akhbarzoy, which is located on the opposite (right) bank of the Assa river, with Assinovskaya on the left, at the mouth of the Zheltukha stream.^[6]

In the summer of 1992, the church in the village was attacked. About 30 attackers broke religious items, shot at the icons and images with machine guns, and raided the altar. In 1997, the new abbot of the church was killed in another attack, and the walls of the church were burned.^[7] In 2013, the rebuilding of the church was finally completed, and the building was reopened.

In 1994, the residents of the village wrote a letter to the former President of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin, with a plea for help, and explaining the facts of robbery, kidnapping and murder against ethnic Russian residents of the village.^[8] On 28 March 1999 and 8 April 1999, two Orthodox priests in the village were kidnapped. Peter Sukhonosov, the Archpriest, was killed, and priest Sergey Potapov was released.^[9]

In 2003, the village of Assinovskaya, together with Sernovodskoye, were transferred to Chechnya.

Population[]

• 1939 Census: 6,004
• 1959 Census: 7,314
• 1970 Census: 7,492
• 1979 Census: 7,020
• 1990 Census: 6,969
• 2002 Census: 10,248^[10]
• 2010 Census: 10,184^[11]
• 2019 estimate: 10,992

According to the 2010 Census, the majority of residents of Assinovskaya (10,058 or 98.76%) were ethnic Chechens, with 126 people (1.24%) coming from other ethnic backgrounds.

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