Kharachoy
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Kharachoy (Russian: Харачой, Chechen: Хорача, Xoraça)[1] is a rural locality (a selo) in Vedensky District, Chechnya.
Municipally, Kharachoy is incorporated as Kharachoyskoye rural settlement. It is the administrative center of the municipality and the only settlement included in it.[2]
Geography
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Kharachoy is located in the gorge of the Khulkuhlau River. It is located 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) south of the village of Vedeno.
The nearest settlements to Kharachoy are Mekhkadettan-Irze in the north-west, Dyshne-Vedeno and Vedeno in the north, and Dzhani-Vedeno in the north-east. The republic of Dagestan is to the east and south-east.[3]
History
In Kharachoy and the nearby area, ancient objects and burial grounds can be found.[4]
Kharachoy is the ancestral village of Chechen folk hero Zelimxan.
According to local resident, Taimagaz Sultanova, one of the oldest residents of Chechnya (as of 2014, when she turned 109), on the night of 23 February 1944, all of the men in the village were locked into the local mosque and the other residents of the village were sent to Kazakhstan in exile. Upon the return in 1958, she said that "there was nothing left of our village, just land".[5]
In 1944, after the genocide and deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was abolished, the village of Kharachoy was renamed to Khvarshi, and settled by people from the neighboring republic of Dagestan.[6] From 1944 to 1957, it was a part of the Vedensky District of the Dagestan ASSR.
In 1958, after the Vaynakh people returned and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was restored, the village regained its old Chechen name, Kharachoy.[7]