Assinovskaya
Assinovskaya is rural locality in Sernovodsky District of the Republic of Chechnya, Russia.
Administrative and municipal status
Municipally, Assinovskaya is incorporated as Assinovskoye rural settlement. It is the administrative center of the municipality and is the only settlement included in it.Geography
The village of Assinovskaya is located on the left bank of the Assa River. It is located south of the village of Sernovodskoye and west of the city of Grozny.The nearest settlements to Assinovskaya are Sernovodskoye in the north, Novy Sharoy in the east, Achkhoy-Martan in the south-east, Bamut in the south, and Berd-Yurt and Nesterovskaya in the west.
History
The village of Assinovskaya was founded in 1847 on the land of the Karabulak aul of Akh-Borzoy. According to official maps at the time, the aul and the village existed simultaneously, so on the map of the for 1871, there are the village of Assinskaya and the aul of Akhbarzoy, which is located on the opposite bank of the Assa river, with Assinovskaya on the left, at the mouth of the Zheltukha stream.According to the Regulations on the management of the Terek Oblast in 1862, the Ingushskiy Okrug was established as part of the Western Department. It included societies of Nazranians, Karabulaks, Galgai, Kistins, Akkins and Tsorins which were ceded to in 1866 due to them belonging to the same nation as the locals. The village of Akh-Borzoy was part of the Ingushskiy Okrug.
In the summer of 1992, the church in the village was attacked. About 30 attackers broke religious items, shot at the icons and images with machine guns, and raided the altar. In 1997, the new abbot of the church was killed in another attack, and the walls of the church were burned. In 2013, the rebuilding of the church was finally completed, and the building was reopened.
In 1994, the residents of the village wrote a letter to the former President of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin, with a plea for help, and explaining the facts of robbery, kidnapping and murder against ethnic Russian residents of the village. On 28 March 1999 and 8 April 1999, two Orthodox priests in the village were kidnapped. Peter Sukhonosov, the Archpriest, was killed, and priest Sergey Potapov was released.
In 2003, the village of Assinovskaya, together with Sernovodskoye, were transferred to Chechnya.
Population
- 1939 Census: 6,004
- 1959 Census: 7,314
- 1970 Census: 7,492
- 1979 Census: 7,020
- 1990 Census: 6,969
- 2002 Census: 10,248
- 2010 Census: 10,184
- 2019 estimate: 10,992