Zozin yurt

Village Zozin yurt Цоцин-Юрт Federal district North Caucasus republic Chechnya Rajon Kurchaloi Earlier names Oktyabrskoye population 18,306 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 140  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 87155 Post Code 366312 License Plate 20, 95 OKATO 96 212 834 001 Geographical location Coordinates 43 ° 14 '  N , 46 ° 0'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 14 '15 "  N , 46 ° 0' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Situation in Chechnya

List of large settlements in Russia

The central mosque of Zozin-Yurt

Zozin-Yurt ( Russian Цоцин-Юрт ) is a village (selo) in the Republic of Chechnya ( Russia ) with 18,306 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is located on the northern edge of the Greater Caucasus , almost 30 km as the crow flies east-southeast of the republic capital Grozny . The village flows through the Chulchulau, which joins several other rivers below the village to form the Belka, a right tributary of the Sunscha .

Zozin-Yurt belongs to Rajon Kurtschaloi and is located eight kilometers north-west of the administrative center Kurtschaloi .

history

In the Soviet period the place was called Oktyabrskoje. In the Second Chechnya War in particular , Zozin-Yurt was one of the most hotly contested places and hit the headlines above all in the years 2001 to 2003 due to the “clean-up operations” by the Russian armed forces. In 2003, a suicide bomber tried to kill the current Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov in Zozin-Yurt .

Population development

year	Residents
1979	5,371
2002	15,935
2010	18.306

Note: census data

Infrastructure

The road that runs from the city of Argun near Grozny to the administrative center of Kurchaloi and the eastern parts of the Rajon with the villages of Zentoroi and Alleroi runs through Zozin-Yurt .

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. ↑ Shot at everyone who comes before the barrel in the taz of January 11, 2002
3. ↑ Annual Report 2003. Russian Federation ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) by Amnesty International
4. ↑ New suicide bombing in Chechnya in Russia-Aktuell from July 28, 2003