The place was founded in 1847 by nomads from Ossetia and was called in Ossetian Бесланыхъӕу / Beslanychjæu , "settlement of Beslan" (after a local nobleman, Beslan Tulatow ). In official Russian usage, the village was known as Тулатово / Tulatowo or Тулатовское / Tulatowskoje after his last name . A settlement to the west of the village and the railway line was officially named Beslan like the railway station and was given the status of an urban-type settlement in 1938 . In 1941 the village was renamed Иристон / Iriston (Ossetian for Ossetia ). In the 1940s a large factory ( "production was kombinat ") for corn processing built: The "Beslankombinat" is corn starch , glucose syrup and corn oil ago. In 1950 the settlement and the village were merged and received city rights under the name Beslan . Today the city is characterized by industry and agriculture .
On September 1, 2004, Chechen terrorists allegedly took more than 1,200 hostages , the majority of them children, at a local school on the first day of school in order to obtain the release of Chechen like- minders imprisoned in Ingushetia . According to official information, 331 hostages were killed when the school was stormed, most of them minors.
Population development
year
Residents
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1939
13,444
of which settlement Beslan 7,586, village Tulatowo 5,858
Alan Dzagojew (* 1990), football player, made an honorary citizen of Beslan in August 2012
literature
Julia Jusik: The Beslan School. The dictionary of horror. With a foreword by Swetlana Alexandrowna Alexijewitsch (original title: Beslanskij slovar. Translated by Helmut Ettinger). Dumont, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-8321-7994-1 .
↑ 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)
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