Verkhatoy (, , ''Vorxatha'') is a

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(a '' selo'') in

Vedensky District Vedensky District (; , ''Vedanan khoşt'') is an administrativeDecree #500 and municipalLaw #14-RZ district (raion), one of the fifteen in the Chechen Republic, Russia. It is located in the southeast of the republic. The area of the district is . ...

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Administrative and municipal status

Municipally, Verkhatoy is incorporated into Tsa-Vedenskoye rural settlement. It is one of three settlements included in it.

Geography

Verkhatoy is located between the

Elistanzhi Elistanzhi (, , ''Elistanƶa'') is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, rural locality (a ''village#Russia, selo'') in Vedensky District, Chechnya. Administrative and municipal status Municipally, Elistanzhi is incorporated as Elistanzhi ...

and Khulkhulau rivers. It is north-east of the village of

Vedeno Vedeno (; , ''Vedana'') is a rural locality (a '' selo'') and the administrative center of Vedensky District, Chechnya. Administrative and municipal status Municipally, Vedeno is incorporated into Vedenskoye rural settlement. It is the adm ...

. The nearest settlements to Verkhatoy are

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in the north, Guni and Khadzhi-Yurt in the north-east, Tsa-Vedeno and Verkhny Tsa-Vedeno in the south-east,

Eshilkhatoy Eshilkhatoy (, , ''Eşilxata'') is a rural locality (a '' selo'') in Vedensky District, Chechnya. Administrative and municipal status Municipally, Eshilkhatoy is incorporated into Vedenskoye rural settlement. It is one of the four settlements ...

and

in the south, and Khattuni in the south-west.

History

In 1944, after the genocide and deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people 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 abolished, the village of Verkhatoy was renamed, and settled by people from the neighboring republic of

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. From 1944 to 1958, it was a part of the Vedensky District of the

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. In 1958, after the Vaynakh people returned and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was restored, the village regained its old Chechen name, Verkhatoy.

Population

* 2002 Census: 465 * 2010 Census: 971 * 2019 estimate: ? According to the 2010 Census, the majority of residents of Verkhatoy were ethnic Chechens.

References

{{Authority control Rural localities in Vedensky District