Khevkharacha-Yalkhara ( ce, Хьевхьарача-Ялхара or Ялхара), (russian: Ялхорой), or just Yalkhara, is a village in

Galanchozhsky District Galanchozhsky District ( ce, Галайн-ЧӀажин кӀошт), (russian: Галанчожский район) is a district (raion) of Chechnya. The district was recreated in 2012. However, the official restoration process of the district is ...

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 ...

Location

Yalkhara is located in the center of Galanchozhsky District. It is located north-west of Aka-Bass and south-west of

Grozny Grozny ( rus, Грозный, p=ˈgroznɨj; ce, Соьлжа-ГӀала, translit=Sölƶa-Ġala), also spelled Groznyy, is the capital city of Chechnya, Russia. The city lies on the Sunzha River. According to the 2010 census, it had a pop ...

. The closest settlements to Yalkhara are Tsecha-Äkhk in the west, Aka-Bass in the south, and Khaybakha in the south-east.

History

Yalkhara is the ancestral home of the Yalkhoroy

teip Teips (also taip, teyp; Nakh тайпа ''taypa'' : ''family, kin, clan, tribe''Нохчийн-Оьрсийн словарь (Chechen-Russian Dictionary, A.G. Matsiyev, Moscow, 1961), ''also available online:'Чеченско-Русский сл� ...

. From 1940 to 1944, Yalkhara was the administrative center of

. On 27 February 1944, after the genocide and deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people and the

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 ...

was abolished, the village of Yalkhara was abandoned and destroyed. In 1957, after the Vaynakh people returned and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was restored, the former residents of Galanchozhsky District were forbidden to resettle there. As a result, most former residents of Yalkhara resettled in the flat lands of the republic, mostly in the Achkhoy-Martanovsky, Groznensky and

Sernovodsky Sernovodsky (russian: Серново́дский; masculine), Sernovodskaya (; feminine), or Sernovodskoye (; neuter) is the name of several rural localities in Russia: * Sernovodskoye, Chechen Republic, a '' selo'' in Sunzhensky District of the C ...

districts. In 2019, Yalkhara was named as one of the first 7 settlements in Galanchozhsky District to be rebuilt in order to resettle the area.

Notable people

Dzhokhar Dudayev Dzhokhar Musayevich Dudayev (, ; russian: Джохар Мусаевич Дудаев; ; 15 February 1944 – 21 April 1996) was a Soviet Air Force general and Chechen separatist leader who was the first president of the Chechen Republic of Ichke ...

, the first President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, was born in Yalkhara, just days before it was abandoned. He was a member of the Tsecho teip, sometimes confused with Yalkhoroy due to his birthplace.

References

Geography of Chechnya History of Chechnya Rural localities in Chechnya {{Chechnya-geo-stub