Geography
Shalazhi is located west of the republic on the foothills of the Greater Caucasus mountains and is located on the banks of the Shalezha River. It is west ofHistory
1944–1958
In 1944, after the genocide and deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was abolished, the village of Shalazhi (Şalaƶa) was renamed to Podgornoye. In 1958, after the Vaynakh people returned and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was restored, the village regained its old names, Shalazhi in Russian, and Şalaƶa in Chechen.Present time
In 2020, the village made headlines as the place where Abdullah Anzorov was buried. A young radicalized Chechen refugee living in France with his family, he decapitated a history teacher named Samuel Paty he believed was guilty of blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammad. His burial, which was filmed with a cellphone and published on the internet, attracted significant controversy. Cries of '' Allah u Akbar'' (God is great in Arabic) accompanied the funeral procession are considered as support for Paty's murder, denied by some as being just a tribute to his death, like any deceased Muslim. Another controversy erupted after Russian news site ''news.ru'' claimed a street had been renamed in Anzorov's honour. The Chechen television of the Kadyrov administration (''Grozny TV'') denied this rumor, believing that is a fake news and a photo montage.Population
* 1979 Census: 5,044 * 1990 Census: 5,639 * 2002 Census: 5,307 * 2010 Census: 4,998 * 2012 Census: 5,032 * 2013 Census: 5,078 * 2014 Census: 5,094 * 2015 Census: 5,133 * 2016 Census: 5,169 * 2017 Census: 5,212 * 2018 Census: 5,267 * 2019 Census: 5,313 * 2020 Census: 5,332References
{{reflist Rural localities in Chechnya 1840 establishments in the Russian Empire