Nazran (Russian: Назра́нь; Ingush: Наьсаре, romanized: Näsare) is the largest city in Ingushetia, Russia.

[4] This is based on the report of L. L. Shteder, who during his expedition to Caucasus in 1781, noticed Ingush outposts on the river of Nazranka [ru].

[18] In 2004, a group of Chechen and Ingush militants[19] carried out a large-scale raid on Ingushetia, led by Shamil Basayev.

The overnight attacks targeted fifteen official buildings in Nazran, and at least three towns and villages located on the Baku-Rostov highway that crosses the republic from east to west.

The raid lasted nearly five hours, and the assailants - said to number 200 to 300 - withdrew almost unscathed; the raiders apparently lost only two men during the attacks.

The rebels killed 67 members of security forces, including the republic's Interior Minister Abukar Kostoyev, his deputy Zyaudin Kotiev, top prosecutors, and other officials; they also captured and looted the MVD's armory and police depots.

In August 2009, a suicide bomber drove a truck filled with explosives into the Nazran police headquarters.

[21] Nazran is located in the western area of Ingushetia, at the borders with Prigorodny Raion of North Ossetia-Alania.