- 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 = MSKThe Chechenaul (Shalinsky District ), on which participated in attackLeo 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 theImam Shamil when it came to theChechen Republic . Had more than 900 court yard and was the richest Chechenaul .Awtury is located at a foot of
Black mountains , on the riverHulhulau . It is located inShalinsky District , in the east borders on villageKurchaloy , in the southeast with villageGeldygen and in the south with villageTsatsan-yurt , in the northwest with villageSerzhen-yurt .The village is based at once after that, the plain was left by theMongolian armies in XIV century. During theCaucasian War (till 1859) in village passed large military collisions of army ofImam Shamil with Russian armies. Here passed meetings toImam 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 esteemedZiyarat in Chechen republic, a place of a burial place of the sheikhBamat-Girey Mitaev . Here live the representative numerous ChechenTeips : Yalkhoi, Gunoi , Chermoy , and others.
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