The district had a population of 59 thousand and area approximating 1,500 square kilometres (580 sq mi), the smallest of all the Terek Oblast's subdivisions in both measures.

25 November] 1905,[3] the Ingush populated land, consisting of seventeen plain villages and four mountain societies,[c] was carved from the Sunzhensky otdel to temporarily create Nazran okrug.

[5] In January 1908, elected from the Ingush people, lieutenant Tatre Albogachiev, Shaptuko Kuriev and Duguz Hadzhi Bekov arrived in Tiflis in order to intercede with the Viceroy of Caucasus, Illarion Vorontsov-Dashkov, on "the approval of the temporarily formed Nazran okrug."

At meetings of various villages, the Ingush population demanded the return of lands that previously belonged to them which were seized under the control of the state property department.

360 representatives of the Kokurkhoev [ru] family, including children, women and old people, were jailed in a Vladikavkaz prison for three months and then exiled to the Yeniseysk Governorate.

[12] Fearing an uprising of the mountaineers for independence under the leadership of influential clergy, Russian authorities also exiled prominent spiritual figures[e] of Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan.

New military conditions, an increase in old taxes and the introduction of new ones, in fact, an emergency regime further aggravated the economic and political situation of the okrug.

Already in early March 1918, civil committees were created in the Terek Oblast which served as a local representation of the Russian Provisional Government.

For instance, in the summer of 1920, the former head of the Ingush State Guard Magomed Kotiev and Colonel Kerim Goigov were arrested.

The collection of food tax to which the population became subject to was a disaster as they, exhausted by war, devastation and drought, could not pay on time and in full.

Although in 1924 there was a Cossack-Ingush clash near the village of Yandare, in general the interethnic atmosphere improved somewhat in the okrug after the Russian Civil War's conclusion.

It ended with the election of the executive committee, which included Idris Zyazikov, Ali Gorchkhanov [ru], Inaluk Malsagov, Yusup Albogachiev, Sultan Aldiev and others.

[22] On 21 January 1921, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee issued a decree on the formation of the Mountain Republic on the territory of the former Terek Oblast.

"[23] The Congress of Soviets of the Ingush okrug held on 26 March to 1 April 1921 fully approved and welcomed the creation of an autonomous republic.

[21] After the Founding Congress of the GASSR on 22 April 1921 approved the elimination of Cossack stripes due to the strong need of land by mountaineers, the territory of Ingush okrug expanded from 184,438.90 dessiatines (2,015 square kilometres (778 sq mi)) to 292,193 dessiatines (3,192.21 square kilometres (1,232.52 sq mi)) which made it possible for the majority of residents of the mountainous region to move to the plain.

[21] In May–June 1922, the Extraordinary Commission of the City Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the Mountain ASSR concluded a number of serious shortcomings in the work of the party and Soviet bodies of the Chechen, Digor, Sunzha [ru] and Ingush okrugs.

[25] In May–June 1922, the Extraordinary Commission of the City Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the Mountain ASSR concluded a number of serious shortcomings in the work of the party and Soviet bodies of the Chechen, Digor, Sunzha [ru] and Ingush okrugs.

[29] Despite numerous demands and appeals from the population, the territory of the Nazran okrug never increased and it remained at the size of 2,468.1 square versts (2,808.9 km2; 1,084.5 sq mi).

The groups of Nazran okrug became more and more stratified in a way: at one side there was a wealthy elite—the kulaks, at the other—a mass of landless and land-poor peasants—rural proletarians and semi-proletarians.

[29] The rental relations developed especially intensively under the conditions of the Stolypin reform and with the creation of local branches of the Peasants' Land Bank.

For instance, inhabitants of the Metskhal society like Yandievs, Esmurzievs, Daurbekovs, Bersanovs, Kotievs, Matievs and Zaurovs purchased 1,000 acres of land from the landowner F. Pelipeyko in 1911.

[29] Prior to the Russian Revolution, wheat was rarely produced in the highland zone of the Nazran okrug, and more so in the lowland region.

[30] Gardening and melon growing was also practiced in Nazran okrug, although the latter played a completely unnoticeable role in the district's economy.

Akin to melon growing, gardening played a relative role and it was practiced only in the areas where natural and climatic conditions were suitable.

With the outbreak of World War I, there was a decline in all sectors of agriculture: the sowing and harvesting of grain was reduced and the number of livestock of all types decreased.

Based on this regulations, the local Russian administration proceeded opening rural boards and courts, convening assemblies and collecting taxes.

For comparison, for the maintenance of a postal route 26 versts (28 km; 17 mi) through Sleptsovskaya (present-day Sunzha), the administration collected only 120 rubles.

[35] The entire rural population of the Nazran okrug bore secular duties to satisfy the internal needs of the peasant community.

They were allowed with the requirement to complete the road project and carry out all earthworks at their own expense, as well as to deposit 24,562 rubles into the cash desk of the Nazran station.

1 January] 1916, including 31,038 men and 28,008 women, 57,178 of whom were the permanent population, and 1,868 were temporary residents:[38] In 1914, the Nazran okrug consisted of the following 135 settlements:[39]