Naursky District (russian: Нау́рский райо́н; ce, Невран кӀошт, ''Nevran khoşt'') is an administrative
[Decree #500] and municipal
[Law #47-RZ] district (
raion
A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states. The term is used for both a type of subnational entity and a division of a city. The word is from the French (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), and is co ...
), one of the
fifteen in the
Chechen Republic,
Russia
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. It is located in the northwest of the republic. The area of the district is .
Its
administrative center
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A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or ...
is the
rural locality (a ''
stanitsa'') of
Naurskaya.
Population: 51,143 (
2002 Census);
The population of Naurskaya accounts for 16.5% of the district's total population.
History
In the second half of the 18th century, the area was settled by the Russian and Ukrainian
Cossacks
The Cossacks , es, cosaco , et, Kasakad, cazacii , fi, Kasakat, cazacii , french: cosaques , hu, kozákok, cazacii , it, cosacchi , orv, коза́ки, pl, Kozacy , pt, cossacos , ro, cazaci , russian: казаки́ or ...
. Several ''stanitsas'' were founded. In 1771, after being wounded at the siege of
Bender, the future Cossack insurgency leader
Yemelyan Pugachev came to live at
Ishcherskaya with his family.
The modern district was created in 1935 by the order of the
Supreme Soviet
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. It was a part of
Stavropol Krai
Stavropol Krai (russian: Ставропо́льский край, r=Stavropolsky kray, p=stəvrɐˈpolʲskʲɪj kraj) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject (a Krais of Russia, krai) of Russia. It is geographically located in the North ...
prior to 1944 when it was transferred to newly created
Grozny Oblast. After the Chechens were allowed to return in 1957, the district remained a part of the restored
Chechen-Ingush ASSR
The Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic; inh, Нохч-ГӀалгӀай Автономе Советий Социализма Республика, Noxç-Ġalġay Avtonome Sovetiy Socializma Respublika; russian: Чече́но-И ...
.
Economy
Its
agriculture
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is dominated by
livestock
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breeding, especially in the north of the district (often subject to field erosion, caused by severe climatic circumstances), but there are
vineyard
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s in the south.
References
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Districts of Chechnya