Small Malgobek

The village of Maliy Malgobek is located in the southern part of the Mozdok region, in the very south of the ledge, where the territory of North Ossetia extends into the territory of the neighboring republic of Ingushetia . The village is located 40 km south of the regional center of Mozdok , 8 km northeast of the Ingush city of Malgobek and 67 km north of the capital of North Ossetia, the city of Vladikavkaz (distance along the roads) ^[5] .

The village is located on the crest of the Tersky Range , on the border of North Ossetia and Ingushetia. In fact, the border between the two republics coincides here with the highway that runs along the southern outskirts of the village, connecting the Pobeda oil producing section east of the village and the village of Voznesenskaya (in Ingushetia) with the city of Malgobek (also Ingushetia). Passing along the ridge to the west from the village of Voznesenskaya to Old Malgobek , this road connects a number of oil producing villages and sections of the Malgobek-Gorsky oil field . In the village of Voznesenskaya, it adjoins a regional highway R-296 Mozdok - Chermen - Vladikavkaz, in Old Malgobek it adjoins the Malgobek - Razdolnoye highway.

Thus, in terms of transport, the village is more connected with the territory of Ingushetia than with the territory of North Ossetia. The village of Predgornoye , the center of the Predgornensky rural settlement, which includes the Small Malgobek, is located in a gully on the northern slopes of the Tersky ridge to the north-east of the Small Malgobek, the shortest route to the Piedmont lies just through the territory of Ingushetia, including through the above Old Road Malgobek - Ascension. To the north of Maly Malgobek, a poorly used lane leaves, connecting on the plain with a road between Predgorny and the village of Kizlyar .

To the south and east of the settlement is an oil producing site named after Chapaev, to the southwest - a site named after Kutuzov, further to the west - a site named after Sheripov. Earlier, a narrow gauge railway was also laid along the road , connecting Old Malgobek with the Victory section (near the village of Voznesenskaya) and having a branch in the direction of the city of Malgobek. Stopping points were within the sections named after Sheripov, Kutuzov, Chapaev (railway tracks Bekovichi I and Bekovichi II) and on the southwestern outskirts of Maly Malgobek, but already in Ingushetia (railway junction Novaya). Now all of the above sites and stopping points are part of the urban district of the city of Malgobek . There were oil deposits in North Ossetia, in the vicinity of Maly Malgobek (to the north and northeast of the village).

The terrain is mostly hilly, very rugged. To the south of the Tersky ridge is the Alkhanchurt valley , to the north is the fertile floodplain of the Terek . The average altitude in the village is about 500 meters above sea level. Absolute heights reach 596.2 meters above sea level on the western outskirts of Maly Malgobek ^[6] .

The village is moderately wooded. A denser forest is located on the ridge of the ridge west of the village (oak and maple predominate) ^[6] . The soil of the area is the Ciscaucasia carbonate, low-humus, low-power chernozems ^[7] .

There are no significant hydrographic objects in the vicinity of the village. With the exception of spring rivers, the nearest large objects are the artery of the Nadterechny canal, which stretches far to the north, along the northern border of the rural settlement, and the Western branch of the Alkhanchurt canal south of the ridge, in Ingushetia ^[6] .

The climate is humid and temperate with warm summers. The average annual air temperature is + 9.3 ° С. Air temperature on average ranges from + 21.9 ° C in July to −3.7 ° C in January. The average annual rainfall is about 636 mm. Most precipitation falls between May and July ^[8] .

At the beginning of the 20th century, according to some reports, a settlement called the Malgobek-beam ( Kum. Malgyabek-otar ) was founded by Terek Kumyks . Subsequently, there was a migration of the Kumyks from this village and the village of Borasuv-otar founded near the village to the larger Kumyk village in the vicinity of Mozdok - Kizlyar ^[4] .

By the time the Great Patriotic War began, the village was already called Malgobek II ( Malgobek II ), in its area there were oil fields of the Malgobek-Gorsky oil field. At that time, the settlement itself, together with the neighboring Chechen Balka, belonged to the Kurp district of the Kabardino-Balkarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic , while to the south, east and west of them, on the ridge of the Tersky ridge, within the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic , there were already farms producing villages, stations, subsequently making up the "old part" of the city of Malgobek ^[9] .

The peak of village development was, according to some sources, in 1960-1970. From the late 1980s, the gradual development of existing deposits began, which led to the activation of landslide processes. They took on a large scale in neighboring Ingushetia, where oil fields, a narrow gauge railway were closed, and the process of resettlement of residents of oil-producing villages and sites that were in the landslide zone to new territories began. In 1993-1997, large-scale landslides passed in the village of Malyi Malgobek ^[10] .

As of 1983, the population of Maly Malgobek was approximately 240 people ^[6] . Today, a significant part of the villagers left the village, there is evidence that no more than 7 families live in it permanently. In 2013, discussions about the possible resettlement of the remaining residents and the payment of compensation for housing that was already lost or still available became more active ^[10] .

National composition

According to the 2002 All-Russian Population Census , 63% of the population were Chechens ^[11] . Also, a number of Terek Kumyks still lived in the village ^[12] .

According to the 2010 All-Russian Population Census ^[13] :

There is evidence that earlier in the village there was a school, a first-aid post, a post office, and a store for the district consumer society . In the school building in the 1990s, some families of Maly Malgobek residents who were affected by landslides were housed, the school ceased to exist as an educational institution ^[10] .