Khay ce, Хьай, Hay inh, Хьай, Hay is a non-residential rural locality (a '' selo'') in Achkhoy-Martanovsky District of the

Republic of Chechnya Chechnya ( rus, Чечня́, Chechnyá, p=tɕɪtɕˈnʲa; ce, Нохчийчоь, Noxçiyçö), officially the Chechen Republic,; ce, Нохчийн Республика, Noxçiyn Respublika is a republic of Russia. It is situated in the ...

, Russia (Until September 26, 2018, it was in the

Sunzhensky District Sunzhunsky District is the name of several administrative and municipal districts in Russia: * Sunzhensky District, Chechen Republic, an administrative and municipal district of the Chechen Republic * Sunzhensky District, Republic of Ingushetia, ...

Ingushetia Ingushetia (; russian: Ингуше́тия; inh, ГӀалгӏайче, Ghalghayče), officially the Republic of Ingushetia,; inh, Гӏалгӏай Мохк, Ghalghay Moxk is a republic of Russia located in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe. ...

Geography

Khay is located on the banks of the upper reaches of the Fortanga river, at the northern foot of mountains Khakhalga and Tsorey-Lama. The nearest settlements in the south – the village of

Tsori Tsori ( inh, Цхьори, Tshori) is an ancient city-settlement in Dzheyrakhsky District of Ingushetia, now abandoned village. It is part of the rural settlement of Guli (administrative center rural settlement). Tsori is the ancestral settlement ...

, in the north-west – the village of Alkun, in the north-east – the village of Dattykh, in the east of Gazuni.

History

In the second half of the 18th century (1770s), the German researcher J. A. Güldenstädt indicated the village of Khay among the total number of Ingush villages proper. Khay among the villages of the Ingush in 1823 was also mentioned by S. M. Bronevskiy. In 1832,

Baron Rosen Baron Roman Romanovich Rosen (russian: Роман Романович Розен) (February 24, 1847 – December 31, 1921) was a diplomat in the service of the Russian Empire. Biography Rosen was from a Baltic German nobility (with a Swedish titl ...

carried out a major military expedition to the mountainous part of Ingushetia. In reports to the Minister of War A. I. Chernyshev dated July 15, 21 and 29, 1832, Rosen reported that the actions of his detachment were directed against the Galgaï, including the Khay (Gai) gorge, near the village of

. According to the Regulations on the management of the

Terek Oblast The Terek Oblast was a province (''oblast'') of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire, roughly corresponding to the central part of Russia's North Caucasian Federal District. Тhe ''оblast'' was created out of the former territories of t ...

in 1862, the Ingushskiy Okrug was established as part of the Western Department. It included societies of Nazranians, Karabulaks, Galgai, Kistins, Akkins and Tsorins (also Meredzhin society and some Galanchozh and Yalkharoy auls). The village of Khai was part of the Galgai society of the Gorsky section of the Ingush district. In 1870, administrative transformations were carried out in the Terek region. The Ingush and Ossetian '' Okrugs'' were merged into one

Vladikavkazsky Okrug The Vladikavkazsky Okrug was a district (''okrug'') of the Terek Oblast of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. The area of the Vladikavkazsky Okrug makes up part of the North Caucasian Federal District of Russia. The Vladikavkazsky Ok ...

and, according to 1874, the village of Khay was part of the 3rd section, and its population was made up of the Galgai. In 1883, 1890 and 1914 censuses, the population of Khay was also entirely Ingush. As a result of the collapse of the

Mountain ASSR The Mountain Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic or Mountain ASSR ( rus, Го́рская АССР, r=Gorskaya ASSR; ce, Лаьмнийн Автономин Советийн Социалистийн Республика) was a short-lived autono ...

on July 7, 1924, the

Ingush Autonomous Oblast Ingush Autonomous Oblast (russian: Ингушская автономная область) was an autonomous oblast of the Russian SFSR in the Soviet Union, created on 7 July 1924. Since 16 October 1924 it belonged to North Caucasus Krai. It was m ...

was formed. The village of Khay was part of the Assinovskiy Okrug of the Ingush Autonomous Oblast, with a common village council in the village of Tsori. The village was abandoned by the inhabitants during the deportation of 1944. After the return of the Chechens and Ingush to the Caucasus, the village was not populated. Mainly, the land of the village was used for apiary farming. According to the 1926 census the majority of the village were ethnic Chechens (23 people) while Ingush were a minority (12 people).

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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * {{Cite book, editor=Ингуш. обл. стат. отд., year=1927, url=https://www.prlib.ru/item/451181, title=Список населённых мест Ингушской автономной области (по материалам Всесоюзной переписи 1926 г.), trans-title=List of populated places in the Ingush Autonomous Region (based on the materials of the All-Union Census of 1926), language=ru, location=Владикавказ, publisher=Гостипография Ингушетии, pages=1–14, ref={{harvid, Список населённых мест Ингушской автономной области, 1927 Rural localities in Chechnya