As of the 2010 Census, its population was 36,728, making it the third largest town in the republic behind Vladikavkaz and Mozdok.

[citation needed] In official use, however, the town was known after Tulatov's surname as Tulatovo or Tulatovskoye.

1 was seized by a group of at least thirty-two Islamic terrorists related to the Second Chechen War.

The siege ended on 3 September with a bloody shootout between the terrorists and the Russian security forces.

It is an industrial-agricultural town dominated by a large corn processing plant established in the 1940s.

The governments of Greece and Norway paid 2.5 million euros through the United Nations Program of Development to have the school built.