Azamat-Yurt


Azamat-Yurt is a rural locality in Gudermessky District, Chechnya.

Administrative and municipal status

Municipally, Azamat-Yurt is incorporated as Azamat-Yurtovskoye rural settlement. It is the administrative center of the municipality and is the only settlement included in it.

Geography

Azamat-Yurt is located on the right bank of the Terek River. It is north-east of the city of Gudermes and north-east of the city of Grozny.
The nearest settlements to Azamat-Yurt are Paraboch in the north, Kharkovskoye and Pervomayskoye in the north-east, Engel-Yurt, Kadi-Yurt and Sovetskoye in the south-east, Komsomolskoye in the south-west, and Khangish-Yurt in the west.

Name

The name of the village comes from two words: Azamat, the name of the founder, and yurt, a Chechen word for a village.

History

Azamat-Yurt was founded in 1859.
In 1944, after the genocide and deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was abolished, the village of Azamat-Yurt was renamed, and settled by people from the neighbouring republic of Dagestan. From 1944 to 1957, it was a part of the Dagestan ASSR.
In 1957, when the Vaynakh people returned and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was restored, the village regained its old name, Azamat-Yurt.

Population

  • 1990 Census: 923
  • 2002 Census: 1,226
  • 2010 Census: 1,500
  • 2019 estimate: 1,941
According to the results of the 2010 Census, the majority of residents of Azamat-Yurt were ethnic Chechens.

Teips

Members of mainly the following teips live in Azamat-Yurt:
  • Aitkhalloy,
  • Shonoy,
  • Shirdoy,
  • Tsontoroy.

Education

Azamat-Yurt hosts one secondary school.