Tarskoye, formerly known as Angusht or Ongusht, is a rural locality (a selo) in

Prigorodny District Prigorodny District (Russian: Пригородный район) is the name of several administrative and municipal districts in Russia: * Prigorodny District, Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, an administrative and municipal district of the Re ...

of the

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, Russia. Population:

Nomenclature

The modern name "Tarskoye", is derived from the name of the village Tarshoy-Yurt in the lowland of

Ingushetia Ingushetia or Ingushetiya, officially the Republic of Ingushetia, is a republic of Russia located in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe. The republic is part of the North Caucasian Federal District, and shares land borders with the country o ...

. The

toponym Toponymy, toponymics, or toponomastics is the study of ''wikt:toponym, toponyms'' (proper names of places, also known as place names and geographic names), including their origins, meanings, usage, and types. ''Toponym'' is the general term for ...

"Angusht" itself is a composition of three

Ingush Ingush may refer to: * Ingush language, Northeast Caucasian language * Ingush people, an ethnic group of the North Caucasus See also *Ingushetia (disambiguation) Ingushetia is a federal republic and subject of Russia. Ingushetia may also refer ...

words: ''an'' ("plain") or ''ane'' ("horizon"), ''gush'' ("visible") and the suffix of place - ''tĕ'' (indication of position or location), literally translating as a "place where the plain is seen".

History

Plot of Vladikavkaz on the Jules Klaproth map

Angusht was built no later than the 17th century and the first report of it was made in 1745 by prince

Vakhushti Vakhushti ( ka, ვახუშტი; 1696 – 1757) was a Georgian royal prince ('' batonishvili''), geographer, historian and cartographer. His principal historical and geographic works, '' Description of the Kingdom of Georgia'' and the ''Ge ...

Kartli Kartli ( ka, ქართლი ) is a historical region in central-to-eastern Georgia traversed by the river Mtkvari (Kura), on which Georgia's capital, Tbilisi, is situated. Known to the Classical authors as Iberia, Kartli played a crucial rol ...

who mentioned Angusht as a village located on the river Boragnis-tskali (

Sunzha Sunzha (; ) is a town and the administrative center of the Sunzhensky District of the Republic of Ingushetia, Russia. Before 2016 it was called Ordzhonikidzevskaya, after Soviet political leader Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze. Population: As of the ...

). He also noted that the inhabitants of Angusht are

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. There is no exact data about the time of foundation of the village. It is known that Angusht was not originally a single village, but was a territorial society, consisting of several small tribal villages. In 1845, the settlement of the banks along the

Sunzha River The Sunzha ( rus, Су́нжа, p=ˈsunʐə; , ; ) is a river in North Ossetia, Ingushetia and Chechnya, Russia, a tributary of the Terek. It flows northeast inside the great northwest bend of the Terek River and catches most of the rivers t ...

by the

Terek Cossacks The Terek Cossack Host was a Cossack host created in 1577 from free Cossacks who resettled from the Volga to the Terek River. The local aboriginal Terek Cossacks joined this Cossack host later. In 1792 it was included in the Caucasus Line Co ...

began. The foundation of the ''Tarskaya

stanitsa A stanitsa or stanitza ( ; ), also spelled stanycia ( ) or stanica ( ), was a historical administrative unit of a Cossack host, a type of Cossack polity that existed in the Russian Empire. Etymology The Russian word is the diminutive of the word ...

'' is associated with the emergence of the '' Sunzha Line''. The stanitsa was built on the site of Ingush lands as fixated by Nikolay Zeidlits in 1873, mentioned in his letter to the government published in the scientific journal ''«News of the Caucasian Department of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society»'' in 1894:

Notable people

Issa Kodzoev Issa Ayupovich Kodzoev (; ; born 12 August 1938) is an Ingush people, Ingush writer, poet, playwright, teacher and politician. Work in Ingush * ''Дувцараш'', 1990 * ''Хьасани, Хьусени, Анжела яха хоза йи ...

(born 1938), writer, poet, and politician *

Yunus-bek Yevkurov Yunus-bek Bamatgireyevich Yevkurov (born 23 July 1963) is a Russian army general and politician. For over 10 years he was the head of the southern Russian republic of Ingushetia, appointed by President Dmitry Medvedev on 30 October 2008. The f ...

(born 1963), military officer and politician

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