Avtury

Avtury

Infobox Settlement
name = Awtury
native_name = "Awtury"
motto = "Freedom or death"
established_date = turn of the 14th century
population_as_of = 2002
population_total = 18,400
timezone = MSK
utc_offset = +3
timezone_DST = MSK
The Chechen aul (Shalinsky District), on which participated in attack Leo Tolstoy on which impression has written the story "The Raid" where the description of horror and senselessness of war contains. At that time Awtury was the central point of the Big Chechen Republic, a place of the Supreme court and councils of war of mountaineers, the rate of the Imam Shamil when it came to the Chechen Republic. Had more than 900 court yard and was the richest Chechen aul.

Awtury is located at a foot of Black mountains, on the river Hulhulau. It is located in Shalinsky District, in the east borders on village Kurchaloy, in the southeast with village Geldygen and in the south with village Tsatsan-yurt, in the northwest with village Serzhen-yurt.The village is based at once after that, the plain was left by the Mongolian armies in XIV century. During the Caucasian War (till 1859) in village passed large military collisions of army of Imam Shamil with Russian armies. Here passed meetings to Imam Shamil, which steels some kind of historical following the results of the accepted decisions (for example, here Imam Shamil has decided to declare that the power will be transferred by an inheritance principle). In the village centre there is one of the most esteemed Ziyarat in Chechen republic, a place of a burial place of the sheikh Bamat-Girey Mitaev. Here live the representative numerous Chechen Teips : Yalkhoi, Gunoi , Chermoy , and others.


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