Yandyki (Russian: Яндыки) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Yandykovsky Selsoviet, Limansky District, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia.

A large group of Chechen migrant workers had moved into the town to work on a collective farm.

According to locals the Chechens had begun forming gangs and were harassing the local townsfolk, as well as desecrating Russian Orthodox Cross graves, and a war memorial to Kalmyks that died during the Chechen wars.

According to the Chechens the locals were jealous of the jobs and money they were earning while the rest of the village was in poverty, and the local Chechen community was being routinely harassed due to Anti-Chechen sentiment.

[3] Yandyki is located 9 km west of Liman (the district's administrative centre) by road.