Ekazhevo () is a rural locality (a '' selo'') in

Nazranovsky District Nazranovsky District (; , ''Näsaren šaꜧar'') is an administrative and municipalLaw #5-RZ district (raion), one of the four in the Republic of Ingushetia, Russia. It is located in the central and western parts of the republic. The area of th ...

of the

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. It forms the

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of the

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of Ekazhevo as the only settlement in its composition.

Geography

The

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

is located on both banks of the

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 ...

river, at the confluence of the tributary, opposite the and districts of the city of

Nazran Nazran (; ) is the largest city in Ingushetia, Russia. It served as the republic's capital from 1991 to 2000, until it was replaced by Magas, which was built for this purpose. It is the most populous city in the republic: Etymology The name ...

, with which the village is connected by a road bridge. The capital of the republic,

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, is located 2 km south of the village, the village of Surkhakhi is 4 km southeast, in the upper reaches of the Konch river.

History

The earliest archaeological sites found in the vicinity of the village of Ekazhevo date back to the

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era in Ingushetia. There is also the "Ekazhevsky settlement" related to the Kuro-Araxes culture (

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). Also, the village of Ekazhevo is included in the zone of one of the largest groups of archaeological sites (including Alanian settlements), where, according to some researchers, the medieval

, the capital of the Alanian state, which included the territory of modern Ingushetia, could be located. To date, directly in the village of Ekazhevo, archaeologists have recorded: on the eastern outskirts of the village — "Ekazhevsky settlement No. 1 Achamza-boarz" ("Acham-boarz"); 50 m from the settlement "Achamza-boarz" — "Ekazhevsky settlement No. 2"; 2.5 km northeast of the village — "Ekazhevsky settlement No. 3". The village of Ekazhevo (, ''Ekažaqongiy-Yurt'') is translated literally as "the village of the sons of Ekazh", the first settlers of which were representatives of the Ekazhev family, says Ph.D. Alimbek Kurkiev in the book "On some toponymic names of planar Ingushetia". From 1944 to 1958, during the period of the deportation of Chechens and Ingush and the abolition of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, the village was called ''Novo-Ardonskoye'' (Novoardonskoye, Novy Ardon). At various times, such leaders as

Shamil Basayev Shamil Salmanovich Basayev (; ; 14 January 1965 – 10 July 2006), also known by his '' kunya'' Abu Idris, was a Chechen guerrilla leader who served as a senior military commander in the breakaway Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. He held the rank ...

and

Said Buryatsky Said Buryatsky (10 February 1982 – 2 March 2010) was an Islamist militant leader in the North Caucasus. Buryatsky had been among the most-wanted men in Russia, and he was considered an ideologue leader of the Islamist terrorists in Chech ...

were killed in the village itself and in its environs. The special operation carried out in the village was the subject of a number of extensive articles in the human rights press in Russia and the CIS.

Infrastructure

There are 6 comprehensive schools in Ekazhevo. The largest potato farm in the republic.

Notable people

* — deputy of the , delegate to the

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. * Issa Kostoyev — State Counselor of Justice 2nd class, investigator, known for the capture of the serial killer

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. * — police colonel,

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* —

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