Ekazhevo

Ekazhevo (Экажакъонгий-Юрт) is a rural locality (a selo) in Nazranovsky District of the Republic of Ingushetia, Russia. It forms the municipality of the rural settlement of Ekazhevo as the only settlement in its composition.

Geography
The village is located on both banks of the Sunzha river, at the confluence of the Konch (river) tributary, opposite the Nasyr-Kort administrative okrug and Gamurzievsky administrative okrug districts of the city of Nazran, with which the village is connected by a road bridge. The capital of the republic, Magas, is located 2 km south of the village, the village of Surkhakhi is 4 km southeast, in the upper reaches of the Konch river.

History
The earliest archaeological sites found in the vicinity of the village of Ekazhevo date back to the Mousterian era in Ingushetia. There is also the "Ekazhevsky settlement" related to the Kuro-Araxes culture (Bronze Age).

Also, the village of Ekazhevo is included in the zone of one of the largest groups of archaeological sites (including Alanian settlements), where, according to some researchers, the medieval Magas, the capital of the Alanian state, which included the territory of modern Ingushetia, could be located.

To date, directly in the village of Ekazhevo, archaeologists have recorded: on the eastern outskirts of the village — "Ekazhevsky settlement No. 1 Achamza-boarz" ("Acham-boarz"); 50 m from the settlement "Achamza-boarz" — "Ekazhevsky settlement No. 2"; 2.5 km northeast of the village — "Ekazhevsky settlement No. 3".

The village of Ekazhevo (Эккажакъонгий-Юрт, Ekažaqongiy-Yurt) is translated literally as "the village of the sons of Ekazh", the first settlers of which were representatives of the Ekazhev family, says Ph.D. Alimbek Kurkiev in the book "On some toponymic names of planar Ingushetia".

From 1944 to 1958, during the period of the deportation of Chechens and Ingush and the abolition of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, the village was called Novo-Ardonskoye (Novoardonskoye, Novy Ardon).

At various times, such leaders as Shamil Basayev and Said Buryatsky were killed in the village itself and in its environs. The special operation carried out in the village was the subject of a number of extensive articles in the human rights press in Russia and the CIS.

Infrastructure
There are 6 comprehensive schools in Ekazhevo. The largest potato farm in the republic.

Notable people

 * Artagan Albogachiev — deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, delegate to the Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Hero of Socialist Labour.
 * Issa Kostoyev — State Counselor of Justice 2nd class, investigator, known for the capture of the serial killer Andrei Chikatilo.
 * Abubukar Kostoyev — police colonel, Hero of the Russian Federation
 * Khizir Khadziev — abrek, national hero of the Ingush.