Galashki, Russia

History

The village was founded by the clan (teip) of Galai who migrated from Galanchozh. In the second half of the 18th century (1770s), the German researcher J. A. Güldenstädt indicated Galashki among the total number of Ingush villages and districts. Galashki as Ingush village was mentioned by S. M. Bronevsky in 1823. Ten years later, I. F. Blaramberg indicated Galashki as Ingush village too in his fundamental work “Historical, topographical, statistical, ethnographic and military description of the Caucasus”, written in 1834 as a result of his business trip and expedition in the Caucasus.

Gradually by the name of the village in the 19th century, in official and literary sources, the terms "Galashian society" and "Galashians" are fixed, as one of the territorial societies of the Ingush.

The village was considered a large village in the foothills in the Caucasian Imamate and played an important strategic role, as it closed the exits from the mountains to the plain. During the existence of Caucasian Imamate, Galashki was the center of a separate Galashkinskoe naibstvo, which was ruled by naib Dudarov, and also Muhammad-Mirza Anzorov.

It was a site of two raids by Chechen separatists during the Second Chechen War, the Galashki ambush in 2000 (from Chechnya) and the Battle of Galashki in 2002 (from Georgia).

From the History section of Galashki on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.