Chahkeri

The village was located on the left bank of Argun . In the area of ​​modern villages Old and New Atagi, 2 km south-west of these settlements. ^{[1] [4]}

Basis and etymology

Chakhkar was founded by representatives of the Chechen taipa Varanda , who came from the village of Varanda . A village with such a name existed even in the 18th century, Chechens called the village of Shakh-Giryyn-Evla, the place where the village was located and is now called Chakhkara. The toponym is derived from the name of the man "Shah-Giri" ^[1] .

Caucasian war

Chah-Carey

In 1826, Yermolov made a punitive expedition to Great Chechnya, whose entrance was destroyed by Atagi, Chakhkeri and Urus-Martan. ^[five]

On June 7-10, 1840, Lieutenant Lermontov took part in the destruction of the Chechen villages of Old Atagi, Chakhkeri, Goity, Urus-Martan and Gekhi. ^[five]

Beybulat Taimiyev placed his forces near the village of Chakhkeri ^[6] , on January 30, Yermolov sent a large detachment consisting of two battalions of the Shirvan Infantry Regiment, 1 company 41 of the Jaeger Regiment, 500 Cossacks and 6 guns to capture the village of Chakhkeri . The village itself was occupied without a fight and "turned into ashes." When the Yermolov detachment was returning to Atagi , Chechen rebels attacked him ^[6] .

A. P. Yermolov in his report to Tsar Nicholas 1 described this fight in the following way:

“At dawn, taking advantage of the thick fog, the enemy, who was behind the river Argun, attacked our troops. Quickly, his cavalry swept past the shooters and ran into the Cossacks, but they took her into sabers and pikes and immediately fled. Soon afterwards, large crowds of infantry made the attack, but were met with shot fire. The enemy, intensifying, made the third most persistent attack, canister, battle infantry fire and hurried Cossacks completed the task "

- Ermolov

In the prescription to the head of the Caucasian line, Yermolov added to the picture of this battle: “Artillery did not otherwise act as a canister, and never further 50 steps, so that the members were torn off and their bodies were torn apart. Chechens rushed to carry away the bodies, and new crowds were exposed to new extermination. ” “The bloodshed was terrible,” P. Zubov wrote about this fight. “All our officers, who were in the arrows, personally participated in the hand-to-hand combat, which started along the whole line ...” “The bloody victims did not stop, however, the Chechens who were in religious ecstasy; they broke through the chain, and the battalions had to engage in bayonet fighting, ”noted A. A. Potto.“ The Chechens themselves said later that they did not remember such a fierce dump. ” "Both sides fought with the same courage," but the outcome of the battle was decided by the advantages of regular army and artillery.

E.V. Brimmer , who participated in the battle of Chakhkeri, wrote that over 300 Russian soldiers and officers were wounded here and several dozen royal soldiers were killed. After the defeat at Chakhkeri, the Chechen rebel forces scattered and Yermolov and his detachment returned to Grozny to rest the troops. On February 5, he again set off with an expedition to Chechnya. He crossed Argun near the village of Big Chechen and headed for the Chechen villages of Shali and Germenchuk. From these villages, Chechen elders appeared to Yermolov with an expression of humility. Having received the hostages, the “proconsul” did not destroy the submissive Shali and Germenchuk, he again crossed the Argun river and moved into Malaya Chechnya.

In 1844, a detachment of Lieutenant Gurko, on the site of the village of Chakhkeri, laid down the Russian fortification "Vozdvizhenskoye" ^[7] .