En Name: | Naursky District |
Ru Name: | Наурский район |
Loc Name1: | Невран кӀошт |
Loc Lang1: | Chechen |
Image View: | Въезд в село Левобережное.jpg |
Federal Subject: | Chechen Republic |
Adm Data As Of: | November 2005 |
Adm Ctr Type: | stanitsa |
Adm Ctr Name: | Naurskaya |
Selsoviet Type1: | rural administration |
No Of Selsoviets Type1: | 14 |
No Of Rural Localities: | 29 |
Mun Data As Of: | June 2010 |
Mun Formation1: | Naursky Municipal District |
Mun Formation1 No Of Urban Settlements: | 0 |
Mun Formation1 No Of Rural Settlements: | 14 |
Area Km2: | 2225 |
Pop 2010Census: | 54752 |
Urban Pop 2010Census: | 0% |
Rural Pop 2010Census: | 100% |
Website: | http://www.chechnya.gov.ru/page.php?republic&id=9 |
Date: | October 2012 |
Naursky District (Russian: Нау́рский райо́н; Chechen: Невран кӀошт, Nevran khoşt) is an administrative[1] and municipal[2] district (raion), one of the fifteen in the Chechen Republic, Russia. It is located in the northwest of the republic. The area of the district is 2225km2.[3] Its administrative center is the rural locality (a stanitsa) of Naurskaya. Population: 51,143 (2002 Census); The population of Naurskaya accounts for 16.5% of the district's total population.
In the second half of the 18th century, the area was settled by the Russian and Ukrainian Cossacks. Several stanitsas were founded. In 1771, after being wounded at the siege of Bender, the future Cossack insurgency leader Yemelyan Pugachev came to live at Ishcherskaya with his family.
The modern district was created in 1935 by the order of the Supreme Soviet. It was a part of Stavropol Krai prior to 1944 when it was transferred to newly created Grozny Oblast. After the Chechens were allowed to return in 1957, the district remained a part of the restored Chechen-Ingush ASSR.
Its agriculture is dominated by livestock breeding, especially in the north of the district (often subject to field erosion, caused by severe climatic circumstances), but there are vineyards in the south.