Ordzhonikidzevskaya

Ordschonikidsewskaja (Russian Орджоникидзевская, Ingush Сипсой-ГӀала/Sipsoj-Ghala ) is a place in Russia in the Republic of Ingushetia with 61 598 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

Ordschonikidsewskaja is located on the northern edge of the Greater Caucasus, at the southern foot of the Sunscharückens about 20 kilometers northeast of Nazran and Magas, the capital of the new republic. The village lies on the left bank of the river Sunzha, a right tributary of the Terek, near the border with Chechnya.

The place has formally the status of a Cossack village, making it the largest " village settlement " of Russia. During the Chechen wars, the population grew, especially in the 1990s by refugees from Chechnya, which initially partially lived in tent camps around the place several times. The population consists mainly of Ingush, some Chechens and today only a few Russians and Cossacks.

Ordschonikidsewskaja is the administrative center of the Rajons Sunzha.

History

The village was founded in 1850 as the Terek Cossack Cossack village Sunschenskaja to previously populated by Ingush territory, named after the river.

In 1852, she was named after the Major General of the Russian Army Nikolai Slepzow ( 1815-1851 ), who came to us in the fight against the Chechens under Imam Shamil life, renamed in Slepzowskaja.

That was the name Cossack village until 1939, when it received its present name after the politician Grigory ( Sergo ) Ordzhonikidze.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy and infrastructure

In Ordschonikidsewskaja there are some enterprises for processing agricultural products.

Ordschonikidsewskaja is found from the railway line opened in 1894 Beslan - Grozny - Gudermes. The station of the city is still called Slepzowskaja. An earlier from here to the village in the south of Ingushetia Galaschki the headwaters of the Sunzha branching narrow gauge railway for timber removal was shut down by the beginning of the 1980s.

The M29 highway Rostov-on- Don - Grozny - Azerbaijani border continues south past the town.

On the western outskirts of the village is an airfield of the Russian Air Force.