Itum-Kale (, , ''Iton-Qälla''), also spelled as Itum-Kali () is a
rural locality (a ''
selo'') and the
administrative center
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of
Itum-Kalinsky District
Itum-Kalinsky District (; , ''Iton-Qällan khoşt'') is an administrativeDecree #500 and municipalLaw #46-RZ district (raion), one of the fifteen in the Chechen Republic, Russia. It is located in the south of the republic. The area of the district ...
, the
Chechen Republic
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,
Russia
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. Population: In 1944 the area's Chechen inhabitants were deported on the order of
Joseph Stalin
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and the area transferred to
Georgia
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; this decision was reversed in the late 1950s and the Chechens who had survived were allowed to return.
Events in the Second Chechen War
During the 1999-2000
siege of Grozny, and after its fall to Russian forces, large numbers of refugees headed toward Georgia through Itum-Kale. In November and December 1999, Russian forces bombarded refugees passing through the town, killing several.
There were clashes between Russian and Chechen forces around Itum-Kale and other nearby villages in mid-February 2000.
On 27 July 2002, during the guerrilla phase of the
Second Chechen War
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, 50 to 60 Chechen fighters launched an attack near Itum-Kale, killing eight soldiers.
Russian officials claimed that the attack had been launched from the
Pankisi Gorge inside
Georgia
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. Georgia initially denied the claim, but then on 3 and 5 August announced that it had captured 13 Chechens who had survived the fighting at Itum-Kale as they tried to cross back into Georgia.
Russia demanded the extradition of the 13 captured fighters, which Georgia refused. The episode formed part of the
Pankisi Gorge crisis.
People from Itum-Kale
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Pasikhat Dzhukalaeva
Pasikhat Dzhukalayeva ( Russian and ; c. 1881–2005) was an alleged super-centenarian from Chechnya.
Biography
Dzhukalayeva was born in the village of Tazbichi ru">:ru:Тазбичи">ru/sup> in the Itum-Kale region in 1881 and grew up t ...
- supercentenarian was born nearby.
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Rural localities in Itum-Kalinsky District