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Alkun Алкун
Selo
Other transcription(s)
 • IngushОалкам
Location of Alkun
Alkun is located in RussiaAlkunAlkunLocation of AlkunShow map of RussiaAlkun is located in Republic of IngushetiaAlkunAlkunAlkun (Republic of Ingushetia)Show map of Republic of Ingushetia
Coordinates: 42°58′15″N 45°01′19″E / 42.97083°N 45.02194°E / 42.97083; 45.02194
CountryRussia
Federal subjectIngushetia
Government
 • HeadKhairov Bakhit Khasanovich
Elevation781 m (2,562 ft)
Population
 • Total1,072
 • Estimate 1,473
Administrative status
 • Subordinated toSunzhensky District
Time zoneUTC+3 (MSK Edit this on Wikidata)
Postal code(s)386243
OKTMO ID26610435101

Alkun (Template:Lang-inh) is a rural locality (a selo) in Sunzhensky District of the Republic of Ingushetia, Russia, located on the left bank of the river Fortanga. It forms the municipality of the rural settlement of Alkun as the only settlement in its composition.

Geography

Alkun is located on both banks of the Assa river, at the entrance to the Assinsky Gorge, 42 km south-west of the city of Sunzha, the regional center.

The nearest settlements: in the northwest - the villages of Muzhichi and Galashki, in the northeast - the village of Dattykh.

History

The exact time of the establishment of Alkun can't be established from documents. Based off the remains of material culture like the Gagiev towers which date to the 12th-17th centuries, the area in the area of the village of Alkun was inhabited by Ingush during the late Middle Ages and the village can be considered one of the oldest in the plain Ingushetia. In the 14–16th centuries, after the invasion of Timur the Lame in the Caucasus, the ancestors of the Ingush families of Akhilgovs and Tsitskievs of the Obankhoy clan, presumably on the site of Nizhny Alkun.

Infrastructure

The village has a secondary school named "Alkun municipal secondary school".

References

  1. Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1 [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service.
  2. "Таблица 5. Численность населения России, федеральных округов, субъектов Российской Федерации, городских округов, муниципальных районов, муниципальных округов, городских и сельских поселений, городских населенных пунктов, сельских населенных пунктов с населением 3000 человек и более". Всероссийской переписи населения 2020 года
  3. "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). 3 June 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  4. Почта России. Информационно-вычислительный центр ОАСУ РПО. (Russian Post). Поиск объектов почтовой связи (Postal Objects Search) (in Russian)
  5. Мальсагов 1963, p. 147.
  6. "Закон Республики Ингушетия от 23 февраля 2009 года № 5-рз «Об установлении границ муниципальных образований Республики Ингушетия и наделении их статусом сельского поселения, муниципального района и городского округа»".
  7. "Алкунская сельский округ (сельсовет)* (Сунженский район)" [Alkunskaya Rural District (village council)* (Sunzhensky District)]. www.ocato.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on February 28, 2018.
  8. "Map of Chechnya and Ingushetia".(rar) (not earlier than 1995). Volume 8 MB
  9. "Map of Chechnya and Ingushetia".(rar) (not earlier than 1995). Volume 8 MB
  10. Dolgieva et al. 2023, p. 11. sfn error: no target: CITEREFDolgievaAgievaDudarovDzumatova2023 (help)
  11. Dolgieva et al. 2023, pp. 11–12. sfn error: no target: CITEREFDolgievaAgievaDudarovDzumatova2023 (help)
  12. Dolgieva et al. 2023, p. 12. sfn error: no target: CITEREFDolgievaAgievaDudarovDzumatova2023 (help)
  13. "СОШ с. Алкун" [SES v. Alkun]. www.k-agent.ru (in Russian).

Bibliography

Russian sources

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