Shelkovskaya

Shelkovskaya (Roushie: Шелковская; Chechen: Мохне, lit. place whaur is wind) is a landwart locality (a stanitsa) an the admeenistrative centre o Shelkovskoy Destrict o Chechnie, Roushie. Population: 11,112 (2010 Census); 9,581 (2002 Census); 7,961 (1989 Census). It wis foondit on the place whaur a sma Chechen veelage previously stuid. Hauf o the umwhile residents o that veelage muivit up north alang the Terek River, whaur they stairtit a new veelage (it is whaur nou the toun o Kizlyar in the Republic o Dagestan staunds). Baith veelages wur later destroyed bi the Mongols. References