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Rural locality in Chechnya, Russia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shalazhi (Russian: Шалажи; Chechen: Шалажа, Şalaƶa) is a rural locality (a selo) in the Urus-Martanovsky District, the Chechen Republic, Russia.
Shalazhi
Шалажи | |
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Other transcription(s) | |
• Chechen | Шалажа |
![]() View of Shalazhi from the minaret of Shalazhi Mosque. | |
Coordinates: 43°06′00″N 45°21′25″E | |
Country | Russia |
Federal subject | Chechnya |
Administrative district | Urus-Martanovsky District |
Founded | 1840![]() |
Elevation | 377 m (1,237 ft) |
Time zone | UTC+3 (MSK ![]() |
Postal code(s)[2] | |
OKTMO ID | 96634428101 |
Shalazhi is located west of the republic on the foothills of the Greater Caucasus mountains and is located on the banks of the Shalezha River. It is 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) west of Urus-Martan and 37 kilometres (23 mi) south-west of the City of Grozny.
The nearest settlements to Shalazhi are Katyr-Yurt and Valerik in the north, Gekhi-Chu in the east and Yandi in the north-west.
In 1944, after the genocide and deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was abolished, the village of Shalazhi (Şalaƶa) was renamed to Podgornoye.[3]
In 1958, after the Vaynakh people returned and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was restored, the village regained its old names, Shalazhi in Russian, and Şalaƶa in Chechen.
In 2020, the village made headlines as the place where Abdullah Anzorov was buried. A young radicalized Chechen refugee living in France with his family, he decapitated a history teacher named Samuel Paty he believed was guilty of blasphemy against Muhammad.[4]
His burial, which was filmed with a cellphone and published on the internet, attracted significant controversy. Cries of Allah u Akbar (God is great in Arabic) accompanied the funeral procession are considered as support for Paty's murder, denied by some as being just a tribute to his death, like any deceased Muslim.[5] Another controversy erupted after Russian news site news.ru claimed a street had been renamed in Anzorov's honour.[6] The Chechen television of the Kadyrov administration (Grozny TV) denied this rumor, believing that is a fake news and a photo montage.[citation needed]
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