42°52′38″N 45°21′28″E / 42.87722°N 45.35778°E / 42.87722; 45.35778 Khaybakha ( Chechen : Хьайбаха ; Russian : Хайбах ), also spelled Khaibakha or Khaibakh , is a non-residential village in Galanchozhsky District , Chechnya .
17-499: Municipally, Khaybakha is incorporated into Gekhi-Chuyskoye rural settlement . It is one of the three settlements included in it. Until 31 December 2019, Aka-Bass was included in Achkhoy-Martanovsky District , but on 1 January 2020 - was transferred to the control of Urus-Martanovsky District . At the same time, Khaybakha is a part of Galanchozhsky District . Until 1944, it was the administrative center of
34-561: A "hero", who "wrote in his book the truth about the tragic fate of the mountain village of Khaybakha". As a result, 200,000 rubles were set aside in the Akhmat Kadyrov fund to build a monument to Kashurka. In 2019, Khaybakha was named as one of the first 7 settlements in Galanchozhsky District to be rebuilt in order to resettle the area. On 27 February 1944, the residents of the village of Khaybakha fell victim to
51-659: 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 . Reports suggested some 500 civilians were killed as a result of the April 1995 and March 1996 attacks. The next month, Russian journalist Nadezhda Chaikova , who had filmed the effects of the 1996 attack, was killed execution-style in Chechnya. A devastating artillery and rocket attack on Samashki took place in October 1999 at
68-528: The Khaybakhoyskoye rural settlement of that district. Khaybakha is located in the center of Galanchozhsky District, on the left bank of the Gekhi River . It is located 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) east of Aka-Bass and 56 kilometres (35 mi) south-west of Grozny . The nearest settlements to Khaybakha are Yalkhara in the north-west, Aka-Bass in the west, and Charmakha in the east. On
85-651: The Sunzha River . It is 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) north of the town of Achkhoy-Martan and 30 kilometres (19 mi) west of the city of Grozny . From the north, the hills of the Sunzhensky ridge reach the village, and from the south, the Samashki Forestry and the Sunzha River. The nearest settlements to Samashki are Raduzhnoye to the north-east, Zakan-Yurt to the east, Novy Sharoy to
102-535: The Chechen-Ingush ASSR was restored, the village regained its old name, Samashki. During both Chechen Wars the village suffered greatly from the hostilities, 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
119-583: The battle tower was partially destroyed. As a result, only the lower half of the structure remained standing, until it was fully restored in November 2019. The foundations of most former houses also remain in the village, as well as two Muslim cemeteries. The massacre in Khaybakha was depicted in the film " Ordered to Forget ". However, this film was banned in Russia due to "insufficient evidence" to prove that
136-674: The beginning of the Second Chechen War , despite the demilitarization of the village, killing or injuring dozens of residents on October 27, 1999 alone, according to HRW. At the time, the deputy commander of the North Caucasus Military District announced that there were only "bandits and terrorists" in Samashki, but a report for the British parliament claimed civilians were killed in revenge for
153-586: The district is 1,100 square kilometers (420 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo ) of Achkhoy-Martan . State health facilities in the district are represented by one central district hospital in Achkhoy-Martan and one district hospital in Samashki . Population: 78,505 ( 2010 Census ) ; 64,839 ( 2002 Census ); 59,837 ( 1989 Soviet census ) . The population of Achkhoy-Martan accounts for 25.7% of
170-473: The district's total population. Samashki Samashki ( Russian : Самашки ; Chechen : СемаӀашка, Semajaşka ) is a rural locality (a selo ) in Achkhoy-Martanovsky District , Chechnya . Samashki is the administrative center and only settlement of the Samashkinskoye rural settlement . Its population was estimated at 12,769 in 2021. Samashki is located on the left bank of
187-529: The doorway of the battle tower in the village, there is a petroglyph in the form of a human hand, palm down. In 1990, there was a plan to build a large memorial to the massacre at the site of Khaybakha, with a special fund set up to raise money. However, this was disrupted by the First and Second Chechen Wars, and the memorial was never built. In 2019, it was announced that the memorial would be built. In 2008, Ramzan Kadyrov described author Stepan Kashurka as
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#1732798320733204-683: The genocide and deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people by Soviet troops. However, unusually, extremely heavy snow had fallen the night before in Khaibakha and nearby auls. As a result, the Soviet troops told residents in Khaybakha and all other villages in Nashkha to go to the stable in Khaybakha while an alternative transport route was set up for them. However, the stable, full of straw, was locked when more than 700 people, who could not descend from
221-599: The heavy casualties suffered there by Russian forces during the first war. Federal forces reported a large-scale operation in Samashki in May 2000. 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. Members of the following teips (clans) live in Samashki: The R217 federal highway "Caucasus" passes 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) south of
238-537: The massacre, an event that is denied by the Russian government, ever happened. Achkhoy-Martanovsky District Achkhoy-Martanovsky District ( Russian : Ачхо́й-Марта́новский райо́н ; Chechen : Тӏеьха-Мартан кӏошт , Theẋa-Martan khoşt ) is an administrative and municipal district ( raion ), one of fifteen in the Chechen Republic , Russia . It is located in the west of the republic. The area of
255-408: The mountains, were inside. The stable was then set ablaze, with anyone who escaped the burning structure being shot. The village has since become notorious for the massacre. As of 2020, there are several standing buildings in Khaybakha; the battle tower, two residential towers, and a newly constructed mosque. However, due to Russian military exercises in the area around Khaibakha between 2005 and 2007,
272-569: The south, Davydenko to the south-west, and Sernovodskoye to the west. The name of the village comes from the Chechen : Саь-Маӏашка , which translates roughly as "the place of deers". Samashki was founded in 1851, as a part of the Sunzhensky Cossack line, on the site of the destroyed Chechen village of Lower Samashki. In 1920, the entire Cossack population of the village was evicted by order of Sergo Ordzhonikidze . The village
289-651: Was then given back to the Chechens, who repopulated it. In 1944, after the genocide and deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people and the abolition of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR , the village of Samashki was renamed and settled by people from other ethnic groups. From 1944 to 1957, it was a part of the Novoselsky District of Grozny Oblast . In 1958, after the Vainakh people returned and
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