Argun (city)

city Argun Аргун ( Russian ) УстаргӀардой ( Chechen ) flag coat of arms Federal district North Caucasus republic Chechnya Urban district Argun First mention 18th century City since 1967 surface 42  km² population 29,525 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 703 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 115  m Official language Russian , Chechen Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 87147 Post Code 366281-366287 License Plate 20, 95 OKATO 96 402 Website newargun.ru Geographical location Coordinates 43 ° 18 '  N , 45 ° 52'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 18 '0 "  N , 45 ° 52' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Situation in Chechnya

List of cities in Russia

Argun ( Russian Аргу́н ; Chechen УстаргӀардой Ustharghardoj ) is an independent Russian city ​​with 29,525 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in the autonomous republic of Chechnya in the North Caucasus federal district .

geography

Mosque in Argun (2014)

Argun is located in the foothills of the Caucasus at an average altitude of 125 m above sea level in the central part of Chechnya, 16 km east of its capital Grozny . Other nearby cities are Shali (16 km south) and Gudermes (19 km east). The urban area of ​​Arguns is located on the river of the same name from the Terek river system .

Argun forms an independent urban district , which is enclosed to the west by Groznenski rajon and east by Schalinski rajon .

history

Argun emerged from the aul called Ustargardoi ( Устаргардой ), which has been known since the 18th century . After the Second World War , when the Autonomous Soviet Republic of the Chechens was temporarily dissolved, all Aul residents were expelled and a workers' settlement named after the Argun River grew on the site of the old village. In the 1960s, the Chechens regained their own autonomous republic, and Argun officially became a city in 1967.

Argun suffered considerable damage during the First and Second Chechen Wars in the 1990s.

Population development

year	Residents
1970	15,148
1979	21,652
1989	25,491
2002	25,698
2010	29,525

Note: census data

Economy and Transport

As an industrial suburb of Grozny, Argun mainly has food-producing businesses. In May 2008, the production of Lada brand passenger vehicles started in one of the former agricultural machinery factories . First the 2107 was built here, today the Priora instead .

Argun is on the M29 trunk road and on the route of the North Caucasian Railway from Grozny via Makhachkala to Baku .

sons and daughters of the town

• Mowsar Barajew (1979-2002), leader of a terrorist squad
• Abdul Halim Sadulajew (1967-2006), rebel leader

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda po Čečenskoj respublike. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010 for the Chechen Republic. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Grozny 2012. ( Download from the website of the Chechen Republic territorial organ of the Federal Service of State Statistics)

Web links

Commons : Argun  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Argun on mojgorod.ru (Russian)