Galanchozh

Galanchozh is the administrative center of Galanchozhsky District. It is planned to be the administrative center of the future Galanchozhsky rural settlement. If this happens, Galanchozh will be the only inhabited settlement included in it. The rural settlement will also include the ruins of the following auls:

• Ame,
• Kerbitye,
• Kerbicha,
• Khorga,
• Mochcha,
• Ochakkh,
• Terta,
• Chusha,
• Eysalashka.

Galanchozh is located in the center of Galanchozhsky District, on the banks of the Osu-Khi river. It is located close to Lake Galanchozh. The settlement is 60 kilometres (37 mi) south-west of the city of Grozny.

The closest settlements and ruins to Galanchozh are Amka to the north-west, Khorga to the north-east, Kerbieta and Ame to the south-east, Chikondi-Pkheda and Akka to the south-west, and Ittar-Khella to the west.[1]

In 1929, a rebel government was established in Galanchozh against the Bolshevik government in the mountains of Chechnya. During the next wave of resistance, a provisional rebel government was established in 1940 by members of the local armed forces.

In 1942, the Soviet Air Force carried out two large-scale bombings in the Chechen mountains, and the Galanchozhsky district was particularly hard-hit by the attacks.

In 1944, after the genocide and deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was abolished, the aul of Galanchozh was abandoned and destroyed.

In 1957, after the Vaynakh people returned and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was restored, former residents of the village were forbidden to resettle there. As a result, most former residents of Galanchozh resettled in the flat lands of the republic, mostly in the Achkhoy-Martanovsky, Sunzhensky and Groznensky districts.[2]

In 2019, Galanchozh was named as one of the first settlements in Galanchozhsky District to be rebuilt in order to resettle the area.[3][4] Estimates say that the village will likely finally be resettled at some time during late 2019 or 2020.

On 31 August 2019, the newly rebuilt mosque in Galanchozh was opened.[5] However, there was still no permanent population in the settlement at this time.