Ushcaloy Explained

Inhabloc Type:	Village
En Name:	Ushcaloy
Ru Name:	Ушкалой
Other Name:	Chechen: Чӏиннах, Уьш-Кхелли
Coordinates:	42.7811°N 45.6086°W
Adm District Jur:	Itum-Kalinsky district
Federal Subject:	Chechen Republic
Inhabloc Cat:	Rural locality
Leader Name:	Azimov Abu Said
Pop Latest:	535
Pop Latest Date:	2020
Postal Codes:	366403

Ushcaloy (Chechen: Чӏиннах,<ref name="Сулейманов А.">Сулейманов А. Топонимия Чечни. Грозный: ГУП «Книжное издательство», 2006. {{in lang|ru, Ç̇innax, Üş-Qelli) is a village in the Itum-Kalinsky District of the Chechen Republic. It is the administrative center of the Ushkaloiskiy rural settlement.^[1]

Geography

The village is located on both banks of the Argun River, at the confluence of the left tributary Dzumserk (Дзумсэрк), 5 km north-east of the regional center Itum-Kali.

The nearest settlements are: in the north, the village of Guchum-Kale (Гучум-Кале); in the southeast, the village of Bugaroy (Бугарой); in the southwest, the village of Konzhukhoi (Конжухой); and in the northwest, the village of Gukhoi (Гухой).^[2]

History

Ushcaloy is the ancestral village of teip Chinkhoy.

Population

The population of Ushcaloy was 304 in 1990,^[3] and rose to 535 in 2020.^[4]

Infrastructure

Ushcaloy is home to a rural mosque^[5] and Ushkaloiskaya municipal secondary school.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ушкалоевская сельский округ (сельсовет)* (Итум-Калинский район) . 2011-05-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120211180526/http://www.ocato.ru/okato.php?code=96211828 . 2012-02-11 . dead . ru.
2. Web site: Карта Чечни. rar. c. 1995. 2010-01-02. ru. 2012-03-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20120308091804/http://artofwar.ru/img/z/zagorulxko_w_a/text_0330-1/. live.
3. Web site: Архивный вестник, №1. Нальчик:Архивное управление Правительства Чеченской Республики . 2013 . ru . 2020-11-07 . 2019-08-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190826060642/http://arhiv-chr.ru/deyatelnost/nashi-izdaniya/send/5-nashi-izdaniya/30-arkhivnyj-vestnik-1 . live .
4. Web site: Численность населения Российской Федерации по муниципальным образованиям на 1 января 2020 года . rar . https://web.archive.org/web/20200822004543/https://rosstat.gov.ru/storage/mediabank/CcG8qBhP/mun_obr2020.rar . 22 August 2020.
5. Web site: Исламская мечеть села Ушкалой . Islamic mosque in the village of Ushkaloi . ru . 2020-11-07 . 2023-09-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230906184624/https://www.k-agent.ru/catalog/2028000332-1092000000366 . live .