Ingush rebels[a] Chandyr Archakov  Mohammed Mazurov  Jagostuko Bekhoev Urusbi Mugaev  Bashir Ashiev 5,000 First invasion: 8,000 Unknown The Nazran uprising (Russian: Назрановское восстание, romanized: Nazranovskoe vosstanie) of the Ingush people against Russian authorities took place in 1858.

In 1858, Russian administration began forcibly enlarging small settlements into larger ones and banning Ingush highlanders from carrying knives.

[9] Beginning in 1845, Russian authorities displaced the Ingush and built Cossack stanitsas on the site of their former villages in order to construct the Sunzha line.

[8] In the 1850s, to make it easier to control and oversee the local population,[10][11] Russian authorities planned to forcibly merge small settlements into larger ones, requiring every village to have at least 300 households.

[13] According to Commander-in-Chief of the Caucasian Army and General Aleksandr Baryatinsky: The main reason for the Nazran uprising was the impossibility of having proper supervision of the inhabitants during scattered settlement in separate farms, and therefore I recognized it necessary to settle them in large auls in the places we had chosen [...] At the same time, completely independently of this, the Committee established in Vladikavkaz to analyze personal and land rights of the natives demanded from the Nazran deputies information on the population.

[14] In the evening, gangs of Ingush horsemen traveled around the surrounding villages and with gunshots called people to arms to the heights opposite Nazran Fortress.

[16] The Ingush sought the support of Shamil, who decided to use this movement to further his political plans to combat the Russian offensive on Dagestan.

On 29 May,[20] Sabdulla Gekhinskiy, the naib (governor) of Gekhi,[21] sent seven messengers to the Galashians and Nazranians with the announcement of Shamil's imminent arrival, and offered to hand over the amanats.

In response to Shamil mobilizing troops, Russian forces gathered two divisions, six battalions, fourteen companies, sixteen Cossack sotnia, twenty-two cavalry, and foot-and-mountain guns.

These Russian forces were located at strategically important points in Assinovskaya, Achkhoy-Martan, Tarskaya Valley [ru], and in front of the Vladikavkaz fortress.

[b] A majority of Karabulak and Galashian elders defected to Shamil but weak support for him and division among Nazranians caused his failure.

[16] Shamil, realizing he would not be able to break through to the plains, gave the order to retreat and on 15 June, the troops moved toward Meredzhi and Dattykh.

[3][24] The leaders of the uprising; Chandyr Archakov, Magomed Mazurov, Dzhogast Bekhoev, mullahs Bashir Ashiev and Urusbi Mugaev were sentenced to death by hanging.

[18] Furthermore, as recommended by Adjutant General Aleksandr Baryatinsky, the tsar of Russia Alexander II deprived the Nazranians of few privileges granted to them by Russia: 1) the Russian banner granted to them, 2) the dismissal of the two banner bearers and the termination of their annual salary of twelve silver rubles, and 3) the right not to pay taxes to the Russian authorities.

The Russian authorities concluded after the uprising:[24][2]If only the offer to peaceful Nazranians to concentrate in large villages, on the plot of land they occupied, served as a pretext for an uprising, then the offer to the mountaineers, who have to express humility, to leave their homeland and go to the Don will serve as a pretext for a fierce war and, therefore, will lead to extermination, and not the obedience of the highlanders.