Restoration of Chechen-Ingush autonomy

Restoration of the Chechen-Ingush autonomy by decrees of the Presidiums of the Supreme Soviets of the USSR and the RSFSR on January 9, 1957, the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was restored,[1][2] and within slightly different boundaries than when abolished; Naursky and Shelkovskaya districts with a predominantly Russian population transferred in 1944 from the Stavropol Territory to the Grozny Region remained in its composition, but the Prigorodny District, which remained in North Ossetia, was not returned to it.

At the same time, the Chechen-Ingush population was forbidden to live in the southern mountainous regions of the republic adjacent to the Georgian SSRGo to the section «Socio-territorial changes».

[4] Due to the ill-conceived and inconsistent implementation of the decree, as well as the resistance of part of the party-Soviet nomenklatura in the center and in the field, the restoration process dragged on, was fraught with many difficulties and created new problems.

The restoration of the republic launched the process of the outflow of the Russian and Russian-speaking population from the region and led to a sharp aggravation of interethnic relations.

[6] An important role in the restoration of the CHIASSR was played by several public figures Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov, Muslim Gairbekov, Magomed Shataev.