Novy Sharoy (Russian: Новый Шарой, Chechen: Керла-Шара,[1] Kerla-Şara) is a rural locality (a selo) in Achkhoy-Martanovsky District, Chechnya.
Municipally, Novy Sharoy is incorporated as Novo-Sharoyskoye rural settlement.
The nearest settlements to Novy Shary are Shaami-Yurt in the south-east, Achkhoy-Martan in the south, Assinovskaya in the south-west, Sernovodskoye in the north-west, Davydenko and Samashki in the north.
[3] In 1957, after the Vaynakh people returned from the genocide and deportation of 1944 and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was restored, the residents of Sharoysky District were forbidden to resettle in their ancestral homes until many years later.
[4] According to the results of the 2010 Census, the majority of residents of Novy Sharoy were ethnic Chechens.