Shelkovskaya

Staniza Schelkowskaja Шелковская ( Russian ) Мохне / Шелковски ( Chechen ) Federal district North Caucasus republic Chechnya Rajon Shelkowskoi Founded 1718 population 11,112 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 15  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 87136 Post Code 366100 License Plate 20, 95 OKATO 96 240 834 001 Geographical location Coordinates 43 ° 30 '  N , 46 ° 20'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 30 '30 "  N , 46 ° 19' 45"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Situation in Chechnya

List of large settlements in Russia

Schelkowskaja ( Russian Шелковска́я , Chechen Мохне / Mochne , also Chechen Шелковски / Schelkowski ) is a stanitsa in the Republic of Chechnya in Russia with 11,112 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is in the foothills of the Caucasus just 60 km as the crow flies northeast of the republic capital Grozny . It is located a few kilometers from the left bank of the Terek , which marks the border with Dagestan there .

Shelkovskaya is the administrative center of the Rajons Schelkowskoi and seat and only town in the rural community Scholkowskoje selskoje posselenije.

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  Mosque in Shelkovskaya

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  Shelkovskaya railway station

history

The place originated around a silk spinning mill founded in 1718 by an Armenian merchant . The name is derived from the Russian word scholk for silk . The Georgian -armenische town was settlement of Terek Cossacks converted in the 19th century in a stanitsa.

In 1923 Stanitsa became the administrative seat of a Rajon that belonged to the Dagestani ASSR until 1937 . In 1944 he came to the Stavropol region , then after the deportation of the Chechen and Ingush population of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR and the dissolution of the autonomous republic to 1957 to the newly formed Grozny Oblast. After Chechen-Ingush autonomy was restored in 1957, Chechen-Ingushetia Rajon was allocated, although 85% of the population was Russian before 1944 .

As a result of the violence during the Chechen independence efforts in the early 1990s, a large part of the Russian population left the Rajon and Stanitsa by the First Chechen War at the latest . But even today, at around 9% in Stanitsa, their share is one of the highest in Chechnya.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	2,310
1959	3,357
1970	5,558
1979	6,600
1989	7,961
2002	9,581
2010	11,112

Note: census data

traffic

Shelkovskaya is located on the left bank of the Terek following regional road Ischtschorskaja (east of Mozdok ) - Tscherwljonnaja  - border with Dagestan in Kizlyar (part of the former R262). The former R309 branches off to the east of Schelkowskaya, crosses the Terek and leads to the city of Chassavyurt in Dagestan, some 30 km away .

Stanitsa has a station of the same name at kilometer 29 of the railway line from Chervljonnaya, which opened in 1915 to Kisljar and extended to Astrakhan in 1942. During the Chechen wars, the rail connection on the section to Kislyar was interrupted from 1994 to 2000.

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)
2. ↑ Нохчийн маттахь «Шелковски» я «Мохне»… . Исламов И .. May 14, 2019. Retrieved February 17, 2020.
3. ↑ Ethnic composition of the population of the Shelkovsky rajon in the 1939 census (Russian)