Kurchaloy
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Kurchaloy ({{langx|ce|Курчалой-ГӀала}}, Kurçaloy-Ġala; {{langx|ru|Курчало́й}}) is a town and the administrative center of Kurchaloyevsky District, Chechnya. Population: {{ru-census|p2010=22,723|p2002=20,857}}
Administrative and municipal status
Municipally, Kurchaloy is incorporated as Kurchaloyevsky urban settlement. It is the administrative center of the municipality and is the only settlement included in it.{{cite web |title=О преобразовании Курчалойского сельского поселения Курчалоевского муниципального района Чеченской Республики и о внесении изменений в Закон Чеченской Республики "Об образовании муниципального образования Курчалоевский район и муниципальных образований, входящих в его состав, установлении их границ и наделении их соответствующим статусом муниципального района и сельского поселения", Закон Чеченской Республики от 17 октября 2018 года №47-РЗ |url=http://docs.cntd.ru/document/550219787 |website=docs.cntd.ru}} Kurchaloy is also the administrative center of Kurchaloyevsky District.{{cite web |title=Курчалоевский район (Чеченская Республика) |url=https://www.bankgorodov.com/area/kyrchaloevskii-raion |website=www.bankgorodov.com}}
Geography
File:Курчалоевский рн Курчалойское ГП.svg
The town of Kurchaloy is located in the foothill plains, on the right bank of the Gumsa, a tributary of the Sunzha. It is located {{convert|12|km|mi}} south of the town of Gudermes and {{convert|32|km|mi}} south-east of the city of Grozny.
The nearest settlements to Kurchaloy are Ilaskhan-Yurt to the north, Mayrtup to the east, Dzhigurty to the south-east, Niki-Khita and Dzhaglargi to the south, Avtury to the south-west, and Geldagana to the west.{{cite web |title=Карта Чеченской республики подробная с районами, селами и городами. Схема и спутник онлайн |url=http://1maps.ru/chechenskaya-respublika/ |website=1maps.ru}}
History
The name of the Chechen teip "Kurchaloy" laid the basis for the name of the city of Kurchaloy.{{cite web |title=Кто они, курчалойцы? - Официальный сайт газеты "Столица ПЛЮС" - Чеченская Республика, город Грозный |url=http://www.stolicaplus.ru/obshchestvo/5719-kto-oni-kurchalojtsy.html |website=www.stolicaplus.ru}}
The ancient village of Kurchal is located in the mountains of the Vedeno region, founded in the 13th century.[https://www.prlib.ru/item/363886 Grabovsky N. F., Plotto von A. I., Popov A. M., Omarov A. P. A. P. Collection of information about the Caucasian highlanders. Issue. 4. Ichkeria. Historical and topographical essay. Naibstvo Darginsky. p. 18 - Tiflis, 1870]
Also, the village of Kurchaloy was located on the Gekhi River, which flows into the Sunzha, just north of the village of Alkhan-Yurt. The old village of Kurchaloy was destroyed during the Caucasian War, on 12 April 1826.{{cite web |title=Журнал ЗВЕЗДА |url=https://zvezdaspb.ru/index.php?page=8&nput=615 |website=zvezdaspb.ru}}{{cite web |title=Н. Г. Волкова этнический состав - Документ |url=https://refdb.ru/look/3798393-pall.html |website=refdb.ru}}
According to A. P. Berger for 1850, Kurchaloy is a large settlement.[http://elib.shpl.ru/ru/nodes/35648-berzhe-a-p-chechnya-i-chechentsy-tiflis-1859 Berger A. P. Chechnya and Chechens. - Tiflis, 1859. - p. 30-33.]
In 1944, after the genocide and deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was abolished, the village of Kurchaloy was renamed to Chkalovo, after Valery Chkalov, and settled by people from other ethnic groups.{{cite web |title=Потери вооруженных сил России и СССР в вооруженных конфликтах на Северном Кавказе (1920–2000 годы) |url=http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/2005/0211/analit01.php |website=www.demoscope.ru}} From 1944 to 1957, it was a part of the Grozny Oblast.
In 1957, when the Vaynakh people returned and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was restored, the village regained its old name, Kurchaloy.{{cite web |title=О восстановлении Чечено-Ингушской АССР и упразднении Грозненской области |url=http://lawru.info/dok/1957/01/09/n1193134.htm |website=lawru.info |language=ru-RU |access-date=2019-10-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190806193408/http://lawru.info/dok/1957/01/09/n1193134.htm |archive-date=2019-08-06 |url-status=dead }}
= City status =
Until gaining city status in January 2019, Kurchaloy was the largest rural settlement in Chechnya.
On 13 February 2018, it was reported that the Chechen government intended to give the village of Kurchaloy the status of a town, and to include the nearby settlement of Mayrtup in it.
On 4 October 2018, the process of converting the village of Kurchaloy into a town began. However, Mayrtup was not to be included into Kurchaloy.{{cite web |last1=Узел |first1=Кавказский |title=Город Курчалой появился в Чечне |url=https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/326228/ |website=Кавказский Узел}}
On 29 December 2018, the law was passed which confirmed that Kurchaloy would become a town.{{cite web |title=О преобразовании сельского населенного пункта - села Курчалой, Закон Чеченской Республики от 29 декабря 2018 года №76-РЗ |url=http://docs.cntd.ru/document/550307652 |website=docs.cntd.ru}} The law came into force on 9 January 2019.
Population
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- 1939 Census: 3,643
- 1959 Census: 5,104
- 1970 Census: 7,317
- 1979 Census: 8,437
- 1989 Census: 9,906{{cite web |title=Наши издания - Архивное управление Правительства Чеченской Республики |url=http://arhiv-chr.ru/deyatelnost/nashi-izdaniya/category/5-nashi-izdaniya |website=arhiv-chr.ru}}
- 2002 Census: 20,857{{cite journal |last1=Kashnitsky |first1=Ilya |title=Municipality level Russian Census data 2002 and 2010 |url=https://osf.io/cskmu/ |language=en |doi=10.17605/OSF.IO/CSKMU |date=11 April 2017}}
- 2010 Census: 22,723{{cite web |title=ВПН-2010 |url=http://www.gks.ru/free_doc/new_site/perepis2010/croc/perepis_itogi1612.htm |website=www.gks.ru}}
- 2020 estimate: 26,581
According to the results of the 2010 Census, the majority of residents of Kurchaloy (22,669 or 99,76%) were ethnic Chechens.
Economy
The economy of Kurchaloy is dominated by agriculture, mostly the cultivation of crops and sugar beets. Most of the existing agricultural processing enterprises were damaged or destroyed during the Chechen Wars.
There is one electro-mechanical plant in Kurchaloy, which produces energy-saving lighting equipment. The plant started its operations on 1 January 2013 and produces universal LED lights.
Education
Notable people
- Tovbolat Kurchaloevsky, was a Chechen outlaw (abrek) and military figure who participated in the Caucasian War.
- Magomed Shataev, public figure
References
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