4K | Сity Grozny walking tour| Chechen Republic (Chechnya). Russia

Grozny (Chech. Sölzha-GӀala - named after the river Sunzha (Chech. Sölzha) + gӀala “city”) is a city in the North Caucasus, in the south of Russia, the capital of the Chechen Republic, the center of the Grozny district. A city of republican significance, it is not part of the district, forming the city district the city of Grozny. The city is located on both banks of the Sunzha River. The city of military glory of Russia (since April 6, 2015).
One of the largest cities in the North Caucasus: second in terms of area and third in terms of population (297 137 people in 2018, which makes up 20.39% of the republic’s population).
Name of the city in Russian:
• 1818 - December 30, 1869 (according to the new style - January 11, 1870) - the Grozny fortress
• December 30, 1869 - the city of Grozny
• In the Chechen language: "Sölzha-Gӏala"
• In 1998-1999, the administration of the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, which controlled the city, renamed Grozny to Dzhokhar-Ghala (the city of Dzhokhar) in honor of the separatist leader Dzhokhar Dudayev.
In 2000, the Head of Chechnya, Akhmat Kadyrov, when they started talking about moving the capital to Gudermes, which was less destroyed by the war, said that Grozny would remain the capital of Chechnya. According to him, "the whole history of Chechnya is closely connected with Grozny, and therefore the capital cannot be moved."
On October 1, 1991, the Nationwide Congress of the Chechen people under the leadership of Dzhokhar Dudayev announced the division of Chechen-Ingushetia into the sovereign Chechen Republic (the capital is Grozny) and the Ingush Republic as part of the RSFSR.
During the First Chechen War, battles fought around the building of the former Republican Committee of the Communist Party ("Presidential Palace") in Grozny, January 1995. At the end of 1994 and at the end of 1999, the city was stormed by the armed forces of the Russian Federation, in August 1996 - by the combined forces of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. During all these events, the city was severely damaged - it was practically destroyed; and including the central area of ​​the city was completely destroyed.

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