Grozny Oblast

This was met with mixed signals, on one hand this allowed for a very potential workforce, on the other question arose of re-establishment of the ChIASSR and a full re-habilitation of the Chechen and Ingush people.

[3] Upon return, the deported peoples were met negatively by the region's still pre-dominant Russian population, especially in the feuds over land and homes.

This erupted in the August 1958 riots where the Russians demanded that either the Grozny Oblast be restored or the ChIASSR be transformed into a republic with no titular nation like neighbouring Dagestan.

As a result of this, by the mid-1970s a systematic emigration of Russians from the republic started, due to the social discrimination in favour of the only nationality (all administrative roles of Checheno-Ingushetia by the late 1970s were held by Chechens).

[4] By the end of the 1980s, Chechens formed the majority in all mountainous regions, and almost half of the population in traditional ethnic Russian/Cossack regions (left banks of the Terek and Sunzha rivers, cities of Grozny and Gudermes) the catalyst was set for the mass ethnic cleansing of the Russian population that took place in the 1990s.