Sunsha (Ingushetia)

city Sunscha Сунжа ( Russian ) Шолжа-Пхье ( Ingush ) Federal district North Caucasus republic Ingushetia Urban district Sunsha Founded 1850 Earlier names Sunschenskaya (1850–1852) Sleptsovskaya (1852–1939) Ordzhonikidsewskaya (1939–2016) City since 2016 population 61,598 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 320  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 87144 Post Code 386200 License Plate 06 OKATO 26 230 835 001 Website sunjagrad.ru Geographical location Coordinates 43 ° 19 '  N , 45 ° 2'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 19 '0 "  N , 45 ° 2' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Ingushetia

List of cities in Russia

Sunzha ( Russian Сунжа , Ingush Шолжа-Пхье , Scholsha-PCHE ; until February 2016 ordzhonikidzevskaya , Russian Орджоникидзевская , Ingush Орджоникидзевски ) is a city in the Republic of Ingushetia in Russia with 61,598 inhabitants (14 October 2010).

geography

Culture house on the central square of the city

Sunsha
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Sunsha is located on the northern edge of the Greater Caucasus , at the southern foot of the Sunsha ridge around 20 kilometers northeast of Nazran and the new republic capital Magas . The town center is located on the left bank of the eponymous river Sunscha , a right tributary of the Terek , in the immediate vicinity of the border with Chechnya .

The population consists mainly of Ingush , partly Chechens and today only a few Russians or Cossacks .

Sunscha forms a city ​​district and is also the administrative center of Sunschenski Rajons .

history

The place was founded in 1850 as Stanitsa Sunschenskaya of the Terek Cossacks on an area previously populated by Ingush, named after the river.

In 1852 she was named after the Major General of the Russian Army Nikolai Slepzow (1815-1851), who in the fight against the Chechens under Imam Shamil , came to us in life Slepzowskaja renamed.

That was the name of Stanitsa until 1939, when it was given its current name after the politician Grigori (Sergo) Ordzhonikidze .

During the Chechnya wars in the 1990s, the population grew several times over due to refugees from Chechnya, some of whom initially lived in tent camps around the town. The place formally retained the status of Stanitsa, making it the most populous “rural settlement” in Russia for a long time. In 2015 Ordzhonikidsevskaya settlement became urban-type , and the rural commune (selskoje posselenije) was transformed into an urban commune (gorodskoje posselenije) with the settlement as the only locality.

On February 3, 2016, the Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev issued an order to rename Ordzhonikidsevskaya to Sunsha . In the same year, the majority of the residents voted in a referendum in favor of granting city rights, whereupon the Ingush President Junus-bek Yevkurov signed a corresponding law on November 25, 2016 . The township has been transformed into an urban district that is not part of the Rajon.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	3,456
1939	8,249
1959	9,581
1970	15,859
1979	15,574
1989	17,318
2002	65,112
2010	61,598

Note: census data

Economy and Infrastructure

There are some farms processing agricultural products in Sunsha.

Sunscha is located on the Beslan - Grozny - Gudermes railway line opened in 1894 . The city's station is still called Sleptsovskaya . A narrow-gauge railway for logging that used to branch off from here to the village of Galaschki in southern Ingushetia on the upper reaches of the Sunscha was shut down by the beginning of the 1980s.

The R217 Pavlovskaya  - Grozny - Azerbaijani border road runs south of the city.

On the western edge of the village is an airfield of the Russian Air Force .

Web links

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

• City Council website (Russian)

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)