Shaami-Yurt

The nearest settlements to Shaami-Yurt are Davydenko and Samashki in the north-west, Zakan-Yurt in the north-east, Khambi-Irze and Kulary in the east, Gekhi and Valerik in the south-east, and Katyr-Yurt in the south-west.

In the summer of 1999, during the period of the Khasavyurt Accord, a group of people in Shaami-Yurt held Samara journalist Viktor Petrov and head of the regional branch of the "Congress of Soviet Mothers" Svetlana Kuzmin, as hostages.

[9] In the fall of 1999, during the Second Chechen War, the village was bombarded by federal troops under the command of Vladimir Shamanov,[10][11] which led to civilian casualties and started proceedings in international courts.

At the same time, news agencies reported that the federal forces opened fire on the militants in the area of the settlements of Katyr-Yurt and Shaami-Yurt, located to the south-west of the Chechen capital, Grozny.

According to the Human Rights Organization "Memorial", in February 2000, at the command of the federal forces, deliberately within the framework of the developed military operation, a false “corridor” for the Chechen armed detachments to leave Grozny was opened.

As a result, a number of villages - Alkhan-Kala, Katyr-Yurt, Shaami-Yurt, and Zakan-Yurt - when Chechen troops passed through them, and even after they left these settlements, underwent extremely strong artillery and missile-bombing attacks.

According to Novaya Gazeta, on March 26, 2007, a sports center was opened in the village in which the head of the administration, Said-Magomed Bagaev, taught children and adolescents about the basics of Jujitsu.