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16-513: Municipally, Kurchaloy is incorporated as Kurchaloyevsky urban settlement . It is the administrative center of the municipality and is the only settlement included in it. Kurchaloy is also the administrative center of Kurchaloyevsky District . The town of Kurchaloy is located in the foothill plains, on the right bank of the Gumsa , a tributary of the Sunzha . It is located 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) south of

32-528: A common ancestor or geographic location. It is a sub-unit of the tukkhum and shahar . There are about 150 Chechen and 120 Ingush teips. Teips played an important role in the socioeconomic life of the Chechen and Ingush peoples before and during the Middle Ages , and continue to be an important cultural part to this day. Common teip rules and some features include: Teips being sub-units of tukkhums, members of

48-486: Is home to Aleroj Teip (associated with the selo of Alleroy), and is a birthplace of both former Chechen president Aslan Maskhadov and former Minister of National Security Turpal-Ali Atgeriyev . Teip A teip (also taip , tayp , teyp ; Chechen and Ingush : тайпа, romanized: taypa [ˈtajpə] , lit. family , kin , clan , tribe ) is a Chechen and Ingush tribal organization or clan , self-identified through descent from

64-631: Is located in the mountains of the Vedeno region, founded in the 13th century. Also, the village of Kurchaloy was located on the Gekhi River, which flows into the Sunzha, just north of the village of Alkhan-Yurt. The old village of Kurchaloy was destroyed during the Caucasian War, on 12 April 1826. According to A. P. Berger for 1850, Kurchaloy is a large settlement. In 1944, after the genocide and deportation of

80-450: The gar , and the neqe . The neqe consists of households sharing the same family name, while the gar is a number of neqe units that together form a common lineage, however that is not always the case. The basic social unit, meanwhile, was the household, consisting of the extended family spanning three or four generations, referred to as the ts' a or the dözal , with married daughters usually living with in

96-690: The Chechen Republic , Russia . The area of the district is 975 square kilometers (376 sq mi) and is located east of the republic. Its administrative center is the town of Kurchaloy . Its population is 114,039 ( 2010 Census ) ; 101,625 ( 2002 Census ). The population of Kurchaloy accounts for 19.9% of the district's total population. State health facilities are represented by one central district hospital in Kurchaloy and two district hospitals in Tsotsin-Yurt and Alleroy . The district

112-487: The Chechen Wars. There is one electro-mechanical plant in Kurchaloy, which produces energy-saving lighting equipment. The plant started its operations on 1 January 2013 and produces universal LED lights. Kurchaloyevsky District Kurchaloyevsky District ( Russian : Курчало́евский райо́н ; Chechen : Курчалойн кӀошт , Kurçaloyn khoşt ) is one of the fifteen administrative and municipal district ( raion ), in

128-718: The Chechen and Ingush people and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was abolished, the village of Kurchaloy was renamed to Chkalovo, after Valery Chkalov , and settled by people from other ethnic groups. From 1944 to 1957, it was a part of the Grozny Oblast . In 1957, when the Vaynakh people returned and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was restored, the village regained its old name, Kurchaloy. Until gaining city status in January 2019, Kurchaloy

144-540: The clan cemetery, tower, and sanctuary. Land being scarce in mountainous Ingushetia and Chechnya, after the feudal system was overthrown, each teip claimed a definite area of land. Land boundaries were marked by stones with specific marks pointing to a local place of worship. While at first land was owned collectively, individual cultivation ultimately became the norm. In old Chechen and Ingush tradition, women were allowed to own land. The vehement Ingush and Chechen opposition to Soviet collectivization has been explained by

160-411: The household of their spouse. Brothers would share the same land and livestock. The number of teips has been unstable in recent history. While there were 59 Chechen and Ingush teips in the early 19th century, this swelled to a hundred by the mid-19th century, and today there are about 170. New teips could be founded when a large gar broke off and claimed the title of a full-fledged teip. Below

176-454: The information serves as a way to impute clan loyalty to younger generations. Among peoples of the Caucasus , traditionally, large scale land disputes could sometimes be solved with the help of mutual knowledge of whose ancestors resided where and when. A teip's ancestral land was thus held as sacred, because of its close link to teip identity. It was typically marked by clan symbols, including

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192-435: The law was passed which confirmed that Kurchaloy would become a town. The law came into force on 9 January 2019. According to the results of the 2010 Census, the majority of residents of Kurchaloy (22,669 or 99,76%) were ethnic Chechens. The economy of Kurchaloy is dominated by agriculture, mostly the cultivation of crops and sugar beets. Most of the existing agricultural processing enterprises were damaged or destroyed during

208-586: The same teip are traditionally thought to descend from a common ancestor, and thus are considered distant blood relatives. Teip names were often derived from an ancestral founder. As is also true of many other North Caucasian peoples, traditionally, Chechen and Ingush men were expected to know the names and places of origin of ancestors on their father's side, going back many generations, with the most common number being considered 7. Many women also memorized this information, and keener individuals can often recite their maternal ancestral line as well. The memorization of

224-406: The threat it posed to the traditional customs of land allotment. Each teip had an elected council of elders, a court of justice, and its own set of customs. The civilian chief, referred to as the thamda or kh'alkhancha , chaired the council of elders. The baechcha , meanwhile, was the military leader. The teip has its own subdivisions, in order of their progressive nesting, the vaer ,

240-451: The town of Gudermes and 32 kilometres (20 mi) south-east of the city of Grozny . The nearest settlements to Kurchaloy are Ilaskhan-Yurt to the north, Mayrtup to the east, Dzhigurty to the south-east, Niki-Khita and Dzhaglargi to the south, Avtury to the south-west, and Geldagana to the west. The name of the Chechen teip "Kurchaloy" laid the basis for the name of the city of Kurchaloy. The ancient village of Kurchal

256-454: Was the largest rural settlement in Chechnya. On 13 February 2018, it was reported that the Chechen government intended to give the village of Kurchaloy the status of a town, and to include the nearby settlement of Mayrtup in it. On 4 October 2018, the process of converting the village of Kurchaloy into a town began. However, Mayrtup was not to be included into Kurchaloy. On 29 December 2018,

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