Novy Sharoy (, ''Kerla-Şara'') is a

rural locality In general, a rural area or a countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. Typical rural areas have a low population density and small settlements. Agricultural areas and areas with forestry are typically describ ...

(a '' selo'') in

Achkhoy-Martanovsky District Achkhoy-Martanovsky District (; , ''Theẋa-Martan khoşt'') is an administrativeDecree #500 and municipalLaw #40-RZ district (raion), one of fifteen in the Chechen Republic, Russia. It is located in the west of the republic. The area of the distr ...

Chechnya Chechnya, officially the Chechen Republic, is a Republics of Russia, republic of Russia. It is situated in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe, between the Caspian Sea and Black Sea. The republic forms a part of the North Caucasian Federa ...

Administrative and municipal status

Municipally, Novy Sharoy is incorporated as Novo-Sharoyskoye rural settlement. It is the administrative center of the municipality and is the only settlement included in it.

Geography

Novy Sharoy is located on the left bank of the Assa River. It is located north of the town of

Achkhoy-Martan Achkhoy-Martan (, , ''Jaşxoy-Marta'' or Тӏехьа-Март, ''Theẋa-Mart'') is a town and the administrative center of Achkhoy-Martanovsky District, Chechnya. Administrative and municipal status Municipally, Achkhoy-Martan is incorporate ...

and south-west of the city of

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. The village is on the south-western outskirts of the Samashki Forest. The nearest settlements to Novy Shary are

Shaami-Yurt Shaami-Yurt (, ''Şajmi-Yurt'') is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, rural locality (a ''village#Russia, selo'') in Achkhoy-Martanovsky District, Chechnya. Administrative and municipal status Municipally, Shaami-Yurt is incorporated ...

in the south-east,

in the south,

Assinovskaya Assinovskaya is types of inhabited localities in Russia, rural locality (a ''stanitsa'') in Sernovodsky District of the Republic of Chechnya, Russia. Administrative and municipal status Municipally, Assinovskaya is incorporated as Assinovskoye ...

in the south-west, Sernovodskoye in the north-west,

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and

Samashki Samashki (; '' Semajaşka'') is a rural locality (a '' selo'') in Achkhoy-Martanovsky District, Chechnya. Samashki is the administrative center and only settlement of the Samashkinskoye rural settlement. Its population was estimated at 12,769 ...

in the north.

History

In 1957, after the Vaynakh people returned from the genocide and deportation of 1944 and the

Chechen-Ingush ASSR When the Soviet Union existed, different governments had ruled the northern Caucasus regions of Chechnya and Ingushetia. Within the Mountain Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic, later annexed into the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Repub ...

was restored, the residents of

Sharoysky District Sharoysky District (; , ''Şaroyn khoşt'') is an administrativeDecree #500 and municipalLaw #43-RZ district (raion), one of the administrative divisions of the Chechen Republic, fifteen in the Chechen Republic, Russia. It is located in the south ...

were forbidden to resettle in their ancestral homes until many years later. As a result, in 1964, Novy Sharoy was founded for former residents of the village of Sharoy who could not return.

Population

* 1990 Census: 1,425 * 2002 Census: 1,739 * 2010 Census: 1,924 * 2019 estimate: 2,203 * 2023 Census: 20,678 According to the results of the 2010 Census, the majority of residents of Novy Sharoy were ethnic Chechens.

Education

The village hosts one secondary school, the Novosharoyevsky Municipal Secondary School.

References

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