Tolstoy-Yurt

Tolstoy-Yurt (Толстой-Юрт; Девкар-Эвла) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Groznensky District of the Chechen Republic, Russia. Population:  The town is named after the Russian author Leo Tolstoy.

In 2005, Aslan Maskhadov, the third president of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, was reportedly killed in fighting in the locality of Tolstoy-Yurt. Maskhadov was reportedly killed when a Russian special forces soldier threw a grenade into his bunker.