Awtury
Village
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| List of large settlements in Russia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
.svg)
Awtury ( Russian Автуры ; Chechen Эвтара / Ewtara ) is a village (selo) in the Republic of Chechnya ( Russia ) with 14,988 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The place is located on the northern edge of the Greater Caucasus , about 30 km as the crow flies southeast of the republic capital Grozny on the river Chulchulau (or Chuli), which further down, north of Zozin-Yurt, forms one of the components of the right Sunsha tributary Belka. The wooded mountain range south of the village rises to almost 1200 m .
Awtury, one of the most populous rural communities in Chechnya, belongs to Shali Rajon and is located about 9 km northeast of its administrative center Shali , halfway to the neighboring district center Kurchaloi .
history
Awtury is an old Chechen village that may have been founded as early as the 14th century after the Mongol conquerors left the foothills of the Caucasus. The existence of a village on the right bank of the Chulchulau around the year 1792 is certain. The name is traced back to a person called Awtarcha or the Turkic origin oi tura , roughly "place of house".
During the uprising under Imam Shamil in the 1850s, the village was one of his strongholds; the imam himself stayed there for a long time. During the uprising of the Caucasus peoples against the Russian occupation from 1877 onwards, Awtury was temporarily taken by the insurgents.
In the Soviet period the place came to the Shali Rajon, founded in 1920. In 1944, in connection with the deportation of the Chechens and the liquidation of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR, he was given the Russian name Novo-Sadowoje (about "New Garden Village"). With the restoration of Chechen autonomy in 1957, the name was returned to the Russified form of the Chechen name.
During and after the First Chechen War, there were training camps for the field commander of the Chechen separatists Ibn al-Khattab in the hinterland of Awtury . The village was also attacked several times by the insurgents during the Second Chechnya War , for example in 2001 under Abu l-Walid , in 2004, and on November 29, 2005, when Ibragim Umpaschajew, head of the village administration since 1999, was shot shortly after the Chechen parliamentary elections.
Population development
| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1959 | 5,295 |
| 1979 | 8,575 |
| 2002 | 18,330 |
| 2010 | 14,988 |
Note: census data
Culture and sights
In the center is one of the most important "Ziyārate" of Chechnya, a sanctuary that the 1914 deceased Sufi - Sheikh Bamatgirei- Pilgrimage Holiday (by his followers Mitajew Owda called) is dedicated. The site was restored in 2009.
Economy and Infrastructure
Awtury and the surrounding area are dominated by agriculture. Some pre-existing farms processing agricultural products were destroyed during the Chechen wars.
The road that runs from the town of Gudermes via Kurtschaloi to Shali runs through Awtury .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ Awtury ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: Aleksandr Tvërdyj: Toponimičeskij slovar Kavkaza . Krasnodar 2006 (Russian; Toponymic Dictionary of the Caucasus ).
- ↑ Indarbi Bysow: Toponymy of Chechnya ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Association of Chechen Social and Cultural Associations (in Russian)
- ↑ Announcement on the posthumous award of the Order of Valor at grozny-inform.ru , May 31, 2007 (Russian)
- ^ Press release on the website of the Chechen President and Government, August 21, 2009
