Samashki

Samashki Самашки
Other transcription(s)
• Chechen	СемаӀашка
Location of Samashki
UTC+3 (MSK [1])
Postal code(s)[2]	366602
Dialing code(s)	+7 87147
OKTMO ID	96602425101

Samashki (

Samashki is located on the left bank of the

The name of the village comes from the Chechen: Саь-Маӏашка, which translates roughly as "the place of deers".

History

Samashki was founded in 1851,^[7] as a part of the Sunzhensky Cossack line, on the site of the destroyed Chechen village of Lower Samashki.^[8] In 1920, the entire Cossack population of the village was evicted by order of Sergo Ordzhonikidze.^[9] The village was then given back to the Chechens, who repopulated it.

In 1944, after the

In 1958, after the Vainakh people returned and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was restored, the village regained its old name, Samashki.[11]

Samashki in the Chechen Wars

During both Chechen Wars the village suffered greatly from the hostilities,^[12] most notably in the notorious April 1995 incident known as Samashki massacre committed by the Internal Troops of Russia which resulted in the deaths of 100 to 300 civilians.

In March 1996 another attack on the town took the form of a full-scale assault with apparent disregard for civilian lives; according to Human Rights Watch, Russian forces used civilians as a human shields on APCs.^[13] Reports suggested some 500 civilians were killed as a result of the April 1995 and March 1996 attacks.^[14] The next month, Russian journalist Nadezhda Chaikova, who had filmed the effects of the 1996 attack, was killed execution-style in Chechnya.^[15]

A devastating artillery and rocket attack on Samashki took place in October 1999 at the beginning of the

Federal forces reported a large-scale operation in Samashki in May 2000.[19]

Population

• 1979 Census: 9,185
• 1990 Census: 9,945^[20]
• 2002 Census: 10,824^[21]
• 2010 Census: 11,275^[22]
• 2019 estimate: 12,597
• 2021 estimate: 12,769^[5]

According to the results of the 2010 Census, the majority of residents of Samashki (11,263 or 99.9%) were ethnic Chechens, with 12 people (0.1%) coming from other ethnic backgrounds.

Teips

Members of the following teips (clans) live in Samashki:

• Nashkhoy
• Zandak
• Sharoy
• Zumsoy
• Terloy
• Nuokhoy
• Galay
• Akkiy
• Keloy
• Cheberloy
• Dai
• Nizhloy
• Gukhoy
• Kesaloy
• Khimoy
• Khakmadoy
• Shikaroy
• Chanti
• Buosoy

Famous natives

• Lyoma Satuyev, Honored Artist of the Chechen Republic, theater and film actor;
• Usman Dadayev, tightrope walker, People's Artist of the Chechen Republic, Honored Artist of the Republic of Ingushetia;
• Mikhail Ivanyukov, Hero of Socialist Labor;
• Prokofi Kalashnikov, Hero of the Soviet Union, colonel, tanker;
• Shumisat Khazhmukhambetova, sambo wrestler and judoka, champion of the USSR, silver medalist of the Spartakiad of the peoples of the USSR, master of sports of the USSR in sambo and judo.

Transportation

The R217 federal highway "Caucasus" passes 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) south of the village. Also, a railway line from Nazran to Grozny passes through the village. Part of the village is located beyond the railway.

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