Azamat-Yurt

Azamat-Yurt (Russian: Азамат-Юрт, Chechen: Азамат-Юрт[1]) is a rural locality (a selo) in Gudermessky District, Chechnya.

Mosque located in the village of Azamat-Yurt

Administrative and municipal status

Municipally, Azamat-Yurt is incorporated as Azamat-Yurtovskoye rural settlement. It is the administrative center of the municipality and is the only settlement included in it.[2]

Geography
Map of Gudermessky District. Azamat-Yurt is in the north-east

Azamat-Yurt is located on the right bank of the Terek River. It is 19 kilometres (12 mi) north-east of the city of Gudermes and 58 kilometres (36 mi) north-east of the city of Grozny.

The nearest settlements to Azamat-Yurt are Paraboch in the north, Kharkovskoye and Pervomayskoye in the north-east, Engel-Yurt, Kadi-Yurt and Sovetskoye in the south-east, Komsomolskoye in the south-west, and Khangish-Yurt in the west.[3]

Name

The name of the village comes from two words: Azamat, the name of the founder, and yurt, a Chechen word for a village.[4]

History

Azamat-Yurt was founded in 1859.[5]

In 1944, after the genocide and deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was abolished, the village of Azamat-Yurt was renamed, and settled by people from the neighbouring republic of Dagestan.[6] 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, Azamat-Yurt.[7]

Population
  • 1990 Census: 923[8]
  • 2002 Census: 1,226[9]
  • 2010 Census: 1,500[10]
  • 2019 estimate: 1,941

According to the results of the 2010 Census, the majority of residents of Azamat-Yurt were ethnic Chechens.

Teips

Members of mainly the following teips live in Azamat-Yurt:

  • Aitkhalloy,
  • Shonoy,
  • Shirdoy,
  • Tsontoroy.

Education

Azamat-Yurt hosts one secondary school.[11]

References
  1. "Ярташ". "Даймохк" газет (in Russian).
  2. "Сельское поселение Азамат-Юртовское (Чеченская Республика)". www.bankgorodov.com.
  3. "Карта Чеченской республики подробная с районами, селами и городами. Схема и спутник онлайн". 1maps.ru.
  4. "Топонимический словарь Кавказа. А. В. Твердый". web.archive.org. 6 October 2010.
  5. "Чеченцы в зеркале царской статистики (1860 - 1900) - Ибрагимова З.Х." (in Russian). 2006.
  6. "Потери вооруженных сил России и СССР в вооруженных конфликтах на Северном Кавказе (1920–2000 годы)". www.demoscope.ru.
  7. "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.
  8. "Наши издания - Архивное управление Правительства Чеченской Республики". arhiv-chr.ru.
  9. Kashnitsky, Ilya (11 April 2017). "Municipality level Russian Census data 2002 and 2010". doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/CSKMU.
  10. "ВПН-2010". www.gks.ru.
  11. "МБОУ 'АЗАМАТ-ЮРТОВСКАЯ СШ', Чеченская республика - ИНН 2005006835". www.k-agent.ru.
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