Ekazhevo

Ekazhevo is a rural locality in Nazranovsky District of the Republic of Ingushetia, Russia. It forms the municipality of the rural settlement of Ekazhevo as the only settlement in its composition.

Geography

The village is located on both banks of the Sunzha river, at the confluence of the tributary, opposite the and districts of the city of Nazran, with which the village is connected by a road bridge. The capital of the republic, Magas, is located 2 km south of the village, the village of Surkhakhi is 4 km southeast, in the upper reaches of the Konch river.

History

The earliest archaeological sites found in the vicinity of the village of Ekazhevo date back to the Mousterian era in Ingushetia. There is also the "Ekazhevsky settlement" related to the Kuro-Araxes culture.
Also, the village of Ekazhevo is included in the zone of one of the largest groups of archaeological sites, where, according to some researchers, the medieval Magas, the capital of the Alanian state, which included the territory of modern Ingushetia, could be located.
To date, directly in the village of Ekazhevo, archaeologists have recorded: on the eastern outskirts of the village — "Ekazhevsky settlement No. 1 Achamza-boarz" ; 50 m from the settlement "Achamza-boarz" — "Ekazhevsky settlement No. 2"; 2.5 km northeast of the village — "Ekazhevsky settlement No. 3".
The village of Ekazhevo is translated literally as "the village of the sons of Ekazh", the first settlers of which were representatives of the Ekazhev family, says Ph.D. Alimbek Kurkiev in the book "On some toponymic names of planar Ingushetia".
From 1944 to 1958, during the period of the deportation of Chechens and Ingush and the abolition of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, the village was called Novo-Ardonskoye.
At various times, such leaders as Shamil Basayev and Said Buryatsky were killed in the village itself and in its environs. The special operation carried out in the village was the subject of a number of extensive articles in the human rights press in Russia and the CIS.

Infrastructure

There are 6 comprehensive schools in Ekazhevo. The largest potato farm in the republic.

Notable people

— deputy of the, delegate to the Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Hero of Socialist Labour.
Issa Kostoyev — State Counselor of Justice 2nd class, investigator, known for the capture of the serial killer Andrei Chikatilo.
— police colonel, Hero of the Russian Federation
— abrek, national hero of the Ingush.