Sunsha (North Ossetia-Alania)

Village Sunscha Сунжа ( Russian ) Сунжӕ ( Ossetian ) Federal district North Caucasus republic North Ossetia-Alania Rajon Prigorodny head Robert Dschiojew Founded 1859 Earlier names Sunschenskaya Akki yurt Village since 1918 population 11,715 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 660  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 86738 Post Code 363104 License Plate 15th OKATO 90 240 870 001 Geographical location Coordinates 43 ° 4 '  N , 44 ° 49'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 3 '45 "  N , 44 ° 49' 15"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in North Ossetia-Alania

List of large settlements in Russia

Sunscha ( Russian Сунжа ; Ossetian Сунжӕ Sunžæ ) is a village in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania ( Russia ) with 11,715 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located on the northern edge of the Greater Caucasus , about twelve kilometers east of the center of the republic capital and at the same time the district administrative seat of Vladikavkaz on the left bank of the Terek tributary Sunscha . The border with Ingushetia runs about 6 km to the east .

Sunsha belongs to the Prigorodny district and is the only place where it forms the rural municipality of Sunschenskoje gorodskoje posselenije.

history

In place of the present village was in 1859 during the Caucasus war from 1817 to 1864 , the stanitsa Sunschenskaja as Cossacks -Wehrsiedlung over the Sunzha Russian defense line established.

After the October Revolution , the Cossack population was resettled in 1918 and the Ingush moved to the place, which was given the Ingush name Ahki-Yurt ( Ingush Ахки-Юрт ; Russian, official form Акки-Юрт / Akki-Yurt ) and the status of a village (selo ) received. The area with the place came in 1936 to the Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic .

After the deportation of the entire Ingush population in 1944, the village was settled by Ossetians , now under the current place name. In 1957 Checheno-Ingush autonomy was restored, but Sunsha with the eastern part of the Rajon remained with the North Ossetian ASSR . Part of the former Ingush population nevertheless tried to return to Sunsha, which repeatedly led to ethnic-religious tensions between the Muslim Ingush and predominantly Christian Ossetians, intensified since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the separation of the republics of Chechnya and Ingushetia as well as with the influx of Refugees from the Chechnya Wars .

Population development

year	Residents
1914	5,786
1959	6.093
1979	6,034
1989	6.012
2002	11,346
2010	11,715

Note: census data from 1959

Economy and Infrastructure

In Sunsha, agriculture is mainly used for local needs. There is a road connection to Vladikavkaz; the road continues in a south-easterly direction up the Sunscha to the neighboring village of Komgaron and as a road over a good 1100  m high pass into the valley of the Assa, which already belongs to Ingushetia .

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. ↑ Article ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. for the resettlement of the Cossacks of the Sunsha department of the Terek Oblast (Russian)