Engel-Yurt
Coordinates: 43°19′37″N 46°21′14″E / 43.32694°N 46.35389°E Engel-Yurt (Russian: Энгель-Юрт, Chechen: Энгал-Юрт[1]) is a rural locality (a selo) in Gudermessky District, Chechnya.
Administrative and municipal status[]
Municipally, Engel-Yurt is incorporated as . It is the administrative center of the municipality and is the only settlement included in it.[2]
Geography[]
Engel-Yurt is located on the left bank of the , 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 and Azamat-Yurt in the north-west, in the north, in the north-east, in the east, in the south-east, and and Biltoy-Yurt in the south-west.[3]
History[]
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[]
According to the results of the 2010 Census, the majority of residents of Engel-Yurt were ethnic Chechens.
Teips[]
Residents of Engel-Yurt come from the following teips:
- Aitkhalloy
- Engenoy
- Kurchaloy
- Biltoy
- Zandakoy
- Shonoy
Education[]
Engel-Yurt hosts two secondary schools.
References[]
- ^ "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.
- ^ "ВПН-2010". www.gks.ru.
- Rural localities in Chechnya