Ekazhevo Explained

En Name:Ekazhevo
Ru Name:Экажево
Loc Name1:Экажакъонгий-Юрт
Loc Lang1:Ingush
Coordinates:43.2081°N 44.8186°W
Map Label Position:right
Federal Subject:Ingushetia
Adm City Jur:Nazranovsky District
Inhabloc Cat:Selo
Pop 2010Census:15 658
Pop Latest:27 224
Pop Latest Date:2021
Pop Latest Ref:[1]
Established Date:1836
Established Date Ref:[2]
Postal Codes:386126

Ekazhevo (inh|Экажакъонгий-Юрт|Ekažaqongiy-Yurt) is a rural locality (a selo) in Nazranovsky District of the Republic of Ingushetia, Russia. It forms the municipality of the rural settlement of Ekazhevo as the only settlement in its composition.[3]

Geography

The village is located on both banks of the Sunzha river, at the confluence of the tributary, opposite the and districts of the city of Nazran, with which the village is connected by a road bridge. The capital of the republic, Magas, is located 2 km south of the village, the village of Surkhakhi is 4 km southeast, in the upper reaches of the Konch river.

History

The earliest archaeological sites found in the vicinity of the village of Ekazhevo date back to the Mousterian era in Ingushetia.[4] [5] There is also the "Ekazhevsky settlement" related to the Kuro-Araxes culture (Bronze Age).[6]

Also, the village of Ekazhevo is included in the zone of one of the largest groups of archaeological sites (including Alanian settlements), where, according to some researchers, the medieval Magas,[7] the capital of the Alanian state, which included the territory of modern Ingushetia, could be located.

To date, directly in the village of Ekazhevo, archaeologists have recorded: on the eastern outskirts of the village — "Ekazhevsky settlement No. 1 Achamza-boarz" ("Acham-boarz"); 50 m from the settlement "Achamza-boarz" — "Ekazhevsky settlement No. 2"; 2.5 km northeast of the village — "Ekazhevsky settlement No. 3".

The village of Ekazhevo (inh|Эккажакъонгий-Юрт, Ekažaqongiy-Yurt) is translated literally as "the village of the sons of Ekazh", the first settlers of which were representatives of the Ekazhev family, says Ph.D. Alimbek Kurkiev in the book "On some toponymic names of planar Ingushetia".

From 1944 to 1958, during the period of the deportation of Chechens and Ingush and the abolition of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, the village was called Novo-Ardonskoye[8] (Novoardonskoye, Novy Ardon).[9] [10]

At various times, such leaders as Shamil Basayev and Said Buryatsky were killed in the village itself and in its environs. The special operation carried out in the village was the subject of a number of extensive articles in the human rights press in Russia and the CIS.[11] [12]

Infrastructure

There are 6 comprehensive schools in Ekazhevo. The largest potato farm in the republic.

Notable people

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Таблица 5. Численность населения России, федеральных округов, субъектов Российской Федерации, городских округов, муниципальных районов, муниципальных округов, городских и сельских поселений, городских населенных пунктов, сельских населенных пунктов с населением 3000 человек и более. Всероссийской переписи населения 2020 года
  2. Web site: Список населённых пунктов по Ингушской АО, составленный по материалам Всесоюзной переписи населения 1926 года. / p. 8
  3. Web site: Закон Республики Ингушетия от 23 февраля 2009 года № 5-рз «Об установлении границ муниципальных образований Республики Ингушетия и наделении их статусом сельского поселения, муниципального района и городского округа».
  4. Любин В. П. Мустьерские культуры Северного Кавказа // V Крупновские чтения по археологии Кавказа (Тезисы докладов). — Махачкала, 1975. — p. 2.
  5. Любин В. П., Беляева Е. В. Среднепалеолитические памятники Ингушетии и проблема миграции палеолитических людей в центральной части Большого Кавказа // Startum plus. №1. — Кишинёв, 2001. — pp. 322-337.
  6. Лопан О. В., Маслов В. Е. Экажевское поселение — памятник эпохи бронзы в Ингушетии // Древности Северного Кавказа. — М., 1999. — pp. 61-86.
  7. Исторический проект «Ингушетия:Исторические Параллели». Web site: Аланы в I—IX вв.. Ghalghay.com
  8. Web site: М.С.-Г. Албогачиева. Демаркация границ Ингушетии.
  9. Web site: Краткая историческая справка об административно-территориальном делении Чечено-Ингушетии. https://web.archive.org/web/20181108184414/http://chechenorg.zama.fm/?p=598 . 2018-11-08 .
  10. Ведомости Верховного Совета РСФСР № 5 1958
  11. Web site: Спецоперация в Экажево 2-3 марта. Детали, свидетельства, фото. https://web.archive.org/web/20130910103944/http://www.memo.ru/2010/03/18/1803102.htm . 2013-09-10 .
  12. Web site: Спецоперация 2-3 марта в селе Экажево: вопросы остаются. https://web.archive.org/web/20120117052750/http://www.memo.ru/2010/03/05/0503102.htm . 2012-01-17 .

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