Timeline of Grozny

{{History of Chechnya}}

• 1819 – Groznaya fort built by Russian Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov.{{Citation |publisher = Virtue & Co. |location = London |title = The Earth and its Inhabitants |author = Élisée Reclus |author-link = Élisée Reclus |editor=A.H. Keane |date = 1876 |url=https://archive.org/stream/universalgeograp06recl#page/n7/mode/2up }}{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
• 1870 – Grozny granted town status in Terek Oblast.
• 1876 – Population: 6,000 (approximate).{{sfn|Murray|1888}}
• 1893 – Oil discovered in Grozny area.
• 1897 – Population: 15,599.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
• 1900 – Synagogue opens.{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0008_0_07924.html |title=Grozny |work= Jewish Virtual Library |access-date=21 April 2013}}

• 1913 – Population: 34,067.{{cite book |title=Statesman's Year-Book |title-link=Statesman's Year-Book |year=1921 |location=London |publisher= Macmillan and Co.|chapter= Russia: Principal Towns: Caucasia |hdl=2027/njp.32101072368440?urlappend=%3Bseq=1282 |chapter-url= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101072368440?urlappend=%3Bseq=1282 }}
• 1917 – Groznensky Rabochy newspaper begins publication.
• 1926 – Population: 97,000.
• 1928 – Grozny–Tuapse oil pipeline launched.
• 1929 – City becomes capital of the Chechen Autonomous Oblast.
• 1932 – Electric tramway begins operating.
• 1936 – Chechen-Ingush Philharmonic Society active.
• 1937 – Grozny Music College opens.{{Citation |publisher = Routledge |isbn = 978-0-415-32328-4 |title = The Chechens: a Handbook |author = Amjad Jaimoukha |date = 2005 }}
• 1938 – Grozny University founded.{{citation needed|date=April 2013}}
• 1939 – Population: 175,000.
• 1944 – Vainakh people in North Caucasus expelled.
• 1946 – Stadium built.{{citation needed|date=April 2013}}
• 1958 – August: 1958 Grozny riots.
• 1965 – Population: 314,000.{{cite book |url= https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1960_round.htm |title=Demographic Yearbook 1965 |year=1966 |publisher=Statistical Office of the United Nations |location=New York |chapter=Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants }}
• 1973 – January: Ingush demonstrations at Lenin Square.{{cite book |title=Russia, the Ingush-Ossetian Conflict in the Prigorodnyi Region |publisher=Human Rights Watch |year=1996 |isbn=1-56432-165-7 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/russiaingushosse0000unse }}
• 1977 – Grozny Airport terminal built.
• 1980 – Chechen State Teacher Training College founded.
• 1985 – Population: 393,000.{{cite book |url= https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1980_round.htm |title=1985 Demographic Yearbook |year=1987 |publisher=United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office |location=New York |chapter=Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants |pages=247–289 }}
• 1991
• City becomes capital of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.
• Beslan Gantemirov becomes mayor.{{Citation |publisher = Cornell University Press |location = Ithaca, NY |author = Kimberly Zisk Marten |title = Warlords: Strong-arm Brokers in Weak States |date = 2012 |isbn = 978-0-8014-5076-1 |url = https://archive.org/details/warlordsstrongar00mart }}
• Lenin Square renamed "Sheikh Mansur Square."
• 9 November: Pro-Chechnya demonstration at Freedom Square.{{Citation |publisher = Princeton University Press |isbn = 978-0-691-11354-8 |title = The Geography of Ethnic Violence |author = Monica Duffy Toft |date = 2003 }}
• 1993 – 15 April: Demonstration against Dzhokhar Dudayev.{{Citation |publisher = New York University Press |isbn = 0-8147-2963-0 |location = New York |title = Chechnya: calamity in the Caucasus |author1 = Carlotta Gall |author-link1 = Carlotta Gall |author2 = Thomas de Waal |author-link2 = Thomas de Waal |date = 1998 |url = https://archive.org/details/chechnyacalamity00gall }}
• 1994
• 13 June: Conflict.
• 15 October: "Opposition forces attack" city.
• 26–27 November: Battle of Grozny.
• 28 December: Battle of Khankala occurs near city.
• 31 December: Battle of Grozny (1994–95) begins.
• Population: 370,000 (estimate).
• 1995
• January: Battle of Grozny.
• 19 January: Presidential Palace captured by Russian forces.{{cite journal |title=Chechnia: The Empire Strikes Back |author= Bogdan Szajkowski |journal= GeoJournal |volume= 37 |year= 1995 }}
• Population: 60,000 (approximate).{{Citation |publisher = RoutledgeCurzon |isbn = 978-0-7007-1621-0 |title = The New Russia: a Handbook of Economic and Political Developments |author = Ian Jeffries |date = 2002 }}
• 1996
• Presidential Palace, Grozny demolished.
• May: Conflict.
• 6–20 August: Battle of Grozny.{{cite news |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18190473 |title=Chechnya Profile: Timeline |date=24 May 2012 |publisher=BBC News |access-date=21 April 2013}}
• Mayor Beslan Gantemirov arrested for embezzlement.
• Islamic Youth Centre opens (approximate date).{{cite journal |title=Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Islamisation of the Chechen Separatist Movement |author= Julie Wilhelmsen |journal= Europe-Asia Studies |volume= 57 |year= 2005 }}
• 1997
• City renamed "Dzokhar-Ghala."
• June: Mayoral election declared invalid.{{cite web |url=http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/grozny-elections-declared-invalid/306344.html |title=Grozny Elections Declared Invalid |date=3 June 1997 |work=Moscow Times }}
• 1999
• 1999 Russian bombing of Chechnya.
• 21 October: Grozny ballistic missile attack.
• 3 December: Refugee convoy shooting occurs near city.
• 25 December: Battle of Grozny (1999–2000) begins.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/627671.stm |title= Chechen rebels told to surrender |date= 2 February 2000 |publisher=BBC News }}
• 2000
• 30 January: Mayor Lecha Dudayev killed.{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-feb-02-mn-60195-story.html |title=Chechen Rebels Report Loss of 3 Commanders |date=2 February 2000 |work=Los Angeles Times }}
• February: Russian forces take city.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/12/world/nothing-is-left-in-grozny-returning-refugees-discover.html |title='Nothing Is Left' in Grozny, Returning Refugees Discover |date=12 February 2000 |work= New York Times }}
• 5 February: Novye Aldi massacre occurs near city.
• 14 February: City "sealed."{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/15/world/russians-order-grozny-residents-to-leave-sealing-off-ruined-city.html |title=Russians Order Grozny Residents To Leave, Sealing Off Ruined City |date=15 February 2000 |work= New York Times }}
• 2 March: Grozny OMON fratricide incident.
• April: Land mines cleared; civilians begin returning to city.
• Grozneftegaz oil company headquartered in Grozny.{{cite web |url=http://www.rosneft.com/Upstream/ProductionAndDevelopment/southern_russia/grozneftegaz/ |title=Grozneftegaz |publisher=Rosneft |access-date=21 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511122157/http://rosneft.com/Upstream/ProductionAndDevelopment/southern_russia/grozneftegaz/ |archive-date=11 May 2013 }}

• 2001 – 17 September: Mi-8 crash.
• 2002
• 18 April: 2002 Grozny OMON ambush.
• 30 June: Peace rally at Teatralnaya Square.{{Citation |publisher = Naval Institute Press |location = Annapolis, Maryland |title = Allah's angels: Chechen women in war |author = Paul J. Murphy |date = 2010 |isbn=978-1-59114-542-4 }}
• 19 August: 2002 Khankala Mi-26 crash near city.
• 27 December: Truck bombing.
• Population: 205,000.
• 2003 – Movsar Temirbayev becomes mayor.{{citation needed|date=April 2013}}
• 2004
• 9 May: Explosion at stadium; Akhmad Kadyrov killed.{{cite web |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/10/world/chechnya-bomb-kills-president-a-blow-to-putin.html |title=Chechnya Bomb Kills President, a Blow to Putin |date=10 May 2004 |work= New York Times }}
• 21–22 August: 2004 Grozny raid.
• 2006 – Population: 240,000 (estimate).{{cite web |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/03/world/europe/03iht-chech.html |title=Spring rebuilding in Chechnya |date=3 May 2006 |author=C.J. Chivers |author-link=C.J. Chivers |work= New York Times }}
• 2007 – Muslim Khuchiyev becomes mayor.
• 2008
• Akhmad Kadyrov Mosque opens.{{cite journal |title=Islam in Russia |author1=Alexei V. Malashenko |author2= Aziza Nuritova |journal= Social Research |volume= 76 |year= 2009 }}
• 11 October: The 5.8 {{M|w}} Chechnya earthquake shook the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). Damage was limited in Grozny, but 13 were killed and 116 were injured in the districts of Gudermes, Shalinsky and Kurchaloyevsky.
• Victory Avenue renamed "Putin Avenue."{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/world/europe/06iht-06putin.16712333.html |title=A Chechen avenue is named for Putin |date=6 October 2008 |work= New York Times }}{{cite news |url= http://www.economist.com/node/12627992 |title=The Wild South: Russia's treatment of its republics in the Caucasus has turned them into tinderboxes |date=27 November 2008 |newspaper=The Economist |location=London }}
• 2010
• 19 October: Chechen Parliament attack.
• Population: 271,600 (estimate).{{cite web |url=http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/dyb2011.htm |work=Demographic Yearbook 2011 |year=2012 |publisher=United Nations Statistics Division |title=Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants }}
• 2011 – Grozny-City Towers and Terek Stadium built.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/06/world/europe/new-grozny-cant-hide-wars-psychic-scars.html |title=Gleaming City Rising From Ruins Can't Hide Psychic Scars of a War |author=Seth Mydans |date=5 October 2011 |work= New York Times }}
• 2012
• Islam Kadyrov becomes mayor.{{cite book |title=Territories of the Russian Federation 2013 |publisher=Routledge |year= 2013 |isbn=978-1-85743-675-4 }}
• Lermontov Drama Theatre rebuilt.{{cite web |url= http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_03_21/69114104/ |title=Chechen drama theatre starts new season |date= 21 March 2012 |work=Voice of Russia }}
• 2013 – 3 April: Fire in Olympus Tower.{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2013/apr/04/chechnya-skyscraper-on-fire-video |title= Chechnya skyscraper on fire |date=4 April 2013 |work=The Guardian |location=UK }}
• 2014 – 4 December: 2014 Grozny clashes.
• 2015 – March: Rally in support of the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation.{{cite web |work=Caucasian Knot |title=Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of March 16–22 |url= http://eng.kavkaz-uzel.ru/articles/31174/ |date=23 March 2015 }}

• Grozny history (ru)
• Administrative divisions of Chechnya
• Other names of Grozny
• Timelines of other cities in the North Caucasian Federal District of Russia: Makhachkala

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• {{Citation |publisher = J. Murray |location = London |title = Hand-book for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland |chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=AenSXGLDulUC&pg=PA421 |chapter=Groznaya |edition=4th |date = 1888

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• {{cite book |title=Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon |location=Leipzig |publisher=Brockhaus |year=1908 |language=de |edition=14th |chapter=Grosnyi |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nYrNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA347

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• {{cite news |url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18909-2004May11.html |title= New Violence May Cut Short Chechnya's Modest Progress |date=12 May 2004 |newspaper= Washington Post }}
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• {{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/world/europe/19iht-chechnya.1.17074931.html |title=Grozny, and Chechen History, being Reconstructed |author=C.J. Chivers |date= 19 October 2008 |work= New York Times

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• {{cite book |author=I. Demchenko |year= 2013 |chapter=The Illusion of Peace: The Reconstruction of Grozny and the New Chechen Identity |title=New Cities in the Muslim World |editor= Sarah Moser |location= London |publisher= Reaktion |isbn=978-94-007-4684-8 }}
• {{cite web |title=Grozny's makeover can't mask Chechen menace |url= https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/margaret-evans-grozny-s-makeover-can-t-mask-chechen-menace-1.1411758 |author=Margaret Evans |date=11 February 2013 |work=CBC News |publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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• {{cite web |url=http://kunstkamera.livejournal.com/156555.html |author=Yulia Vishnevets |title=Грозный |trans-title=Grozny |date=26 March 2007 }} (photos of city)
• {{cite web |title=Post-conflict Restoration of the City of Grozny |url=http://www.unhabitat.org/content.asp?cid=9124&catid=463&typeid=2&ContentByTheme=277 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130705172325/http://www.unhabitat.org/content.asp?cid=9124&catid=463&typeid=2&ContentByTheme=277 |archive-date=2013-07-05 |year=2009 |author=City of Grozny }}

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