Tsotsi-Yurt

Tsotsi-Yurt (Russian: Цоци-Юрт, Chechen: Цоци-Эвла, Coci-Evla) is a village (selo) in Kurchaloyevsky District, Chechnya.

The nearest settlements to Tsotsi-Yurt are Dzhalka and Novy Engenoy to the north, Ilaskhan-Yurt to the north-east, Geldagana to the south-east, Avtury to the south, Germenchuk to the south-west, Mesker-Yurt to the west, and the city of Argun to the north-west.

According to legend, the village of Tsotsi-Yurt was founded by a man named Tsotsa, a member of the Meskroy teip.

In 1944, after the genocide and deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was abolished, the village of Tsotsi-Yurt was renamed to Oktyabrskoye and settled by people from the neighbouring republic of Dagestan.

[2] During the early 1990s, the village regained its old Chechen name, Tsotsi-Yurt.