Geldagana

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Coordinates: 43°12′55″N 46°02′25″E / 43.21528°N 46.04028°E / 43.21528; 46.04028 Geldagana (Russian: Гелдагана, Chechen: Гелдагана[1]), also spelled as Geldagan, is a rural locality (a selo) in Kurchaloyevsky District, Chechnya.

Administrative and municipal status[]

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

Geography[]

Map of Kurchaloyevsky District. Geldagana ("Гелдагана") is in the west

Geldagana is located on the right bank of the and on both banks of the . It is opposite from the town of Kurchaloy and 32 kilometres (20 mi) south-east of the city of Grozny.

The nearest settlements to Geldagana are Ilaskhan-Yurt in the north-east, the town of Kurchaloy in the east, Niki-Khita in the south-east, Avtury in the south-west, in the west, and Tsotsi-Yurt in the north-west.[3]

History[]

In 1944, after the genocide and deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was abolished, the village of Geldagana was renamed to Novaya Zhizn (roughly translated from Russian as "New Life") and settled by people from the neighbouring republic of Dagestan.[4][5]

In the early 1990s, the village regained its old Chechen name, Geldagana.[6]

Population[]

  • 1970 Census: 5,357
  • 1979 Census: 5,333
  • 1990 Census: 5,020[7]
  • 2002 Census: 11,875[8]
  • 2010 Census: 12,350[9]
  • 2019 estimate: 13,876

According to the results of the 2010 Census, the majority of residents of Geldagana (12,300) were ethnic Chechens, with 50 people from other ethnic groups.[10]

References[]

  1. ^ "Ярташ". "Даймохк" газет (in Russian).
  2. ^ "Сельское поселение Гелдаганское (Чеченская Республика)". www.bankgorodov.com.
  3. ^ "Карта Чеченской республики подробная с районами, селами и городами. Схема и спутник онлайн". 1maps.ru.
  4. ^ "Указ Президиума Верховного Совета РСФСР о переименовании некоторых сельских советов и населённых пунктов Грозненской области".
  5. ^ "Потери вооруженных сил России и СССР в вооруженных конфликтах на Северном Кавказе (1920-2000 годы)". www.demoscope.ru.
  6. ^ "О восстановлении Чечено-Ингушской АССР и упразднении Грозненской области". lawru.info (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2019-08-06. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  7. ^ "Наши издания - Архивное управление Правительства Чеченской Республики". arhiv-chr.ru.
  8. ^ Kashnitsky, Ilya (11 April 2017). "Municipality level Russian Census data 2002 and 2010". doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/CSKMU.
  9. ^ "ВПН-2010". www.gks.ru.
  10. ^ "ВПН-2010". www.gks.ru.
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