Nesterovskaya

Staniza Nesterowskaja Нестеровская ( Russian ) ГӀажар-Юрт ( Ingush ) Federal district North Caucasus republic Ingushetia Rajon Sunschensky head Mussa Ganyev Staniza since 1847 population 21,937 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 400  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 87341 Post Code 386250 License Plate 06 OKATO 26 230 830 001 Geographical location Coordinates 43 ° 14 '  N , 45 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 14 '15 "  N , 45 ° 3' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Ingushetia

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Nesterowskaja ( Russian Нестеровская , Ingush ГӀажар-Юрт / Ghažar-Jurt ) is a stanitsa in the Republic of Ingushetia ( Russia ) with 21,937 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is located on the northern edge of the Greater Caucasus on the left bank of the right Sunsha tributary Assa at its exit from its narrow mountain valley, the Assa Gorge (Assinskoje Gorge) in the foothills that gently slope towards the Sunsha. Nesterovskaya belongs to Sunschensky Rajon and is located a good 10 kilometers south of its administrative center Sunscha , and a good 20 kilometers northeast of the city of Nazran and the new Ingush capital Magas . Between the latter and Nesterovskaya, an 800  m high, wooded foothill of the mountains on the edge of the Caucasus extends to the north.

history

In the vicinity of the strategically important location of today's Staniza, traces of settlement probably dating back to the 12th century were discovered during archaeological investigations. At the time of the Russian conquest of the Caucasus in the 19th century, the Ingush village of Ghažar-Jurt (also Ghažarij-Jurt ), named after its founder Ghažar-Kant, was located there.

In June 1845 the Aul was destroyed by Russian troops under Colonel Nesterow . During this period in the 1840s, the expansion of the Sunsha Line , part of the Caucasian Defense Line to protect the already Russian-dominated Caucasus areas from attacks by mountain peoples, was in progress . The inhabitants who remained after the destruction moved to mountain villages and in 1847 a stanitsa of the Terek Cossacks , which was named after Nesterov (according to other information, the post existed from 1845 and the Russian troops not far from a fortified post of the Russian troops built in 1842) was built Staniza was only founded in 1861). From this point onwards until the late 1970s, Nesterovskaya was a predominantly Russian settlement, although the Russian population declined from the late 1950s onwards due to the influx of Ingush and Chechens . In the early 1980s, the remaining Russians also fell into the minority because more and more of them were leaving the region because of growing ethnic conflicts. In the course of the 1990s, practically all of the remaining Russian population left the place because of the Chechnya wars.

At the same time, the population increased several times over due to Ingush refugees after the separation of Ingushetia and Chechnya as well as during the wars. In the vicinity of Stanitsa, not far from the border with Chechnya , there were repeated actions by the separatists, so that it was repeatedly declared an area of ​​"carrying out anti-terrorist actions", which amounts to the imposition of a state of emergency , in October 2009.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	6,350
1979	6.102
2002	17,389
2010	21,937

Note: census data

Economy and Infrastructure

The main industry is agriculture . There is also a brick factory . A small hydroelectric power station (Nesterovskaya GES) on the Assa with an annual capacity of 13 million kWh was damaged and out of order as a result of the Chechen wars. The water dammed up by the intact dam is used for irrigation .

The R217 trunk road , which runs from Pavlovskaya in the Krasnodar region along the northern edge of the Caucasus to the Azerbaijani border, passes about five kilometers north of Stanitsa. From there a road leads via Nesterovskaya up the Assa to the southern part of the Republic of Ingushetia. On the other side of the R217 is the Sunsha district administrative center with the closest railway station Slepzowskaja on the Beslan - Grozny  - Gudermes railway line (in the direction of Grozny out of service since the Chechen wars).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)
2. ↑ Ahmet Umatgireevič Mal'sagov: Inguši. Kratkaja istorija, I učastie v vojnach Rossii . RIA KMV, Pyatigorsk 2005, ISBN 5-89314-038-9 , pp. 132–134 ( The Ingush. Brief history, their involvement in Russia's wars ; Russian).
3. ↑ Article about Russian "returnees" on the official website of the Republic of Ingushetia of July 4, 2007 (Russian)
4. ↑ Publication of an order on the official website of the Republic of Ingushetia (Russian)
5. ↑ Small hydropower plants in southern Russia on a regional website of the Unified Energy System (Russian)