Inzhich-Chukun
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Inzhich-Chukun is an aul
Aul
An aul is a type of fortified village found throughout the Caucasus mountains, especially in Dagestan.The word itself is of Turkic origine and means simply village in many Turkic languages....

 located in Karachay-Cherkessia
Karachay-Cherkessia
The Karachay-Cherkess Republic , or Karachay-Cherkessia is a federal subject of Russia . Population: -Geography:*Area: *Borders:**internal: Krasnodar Krai , Kabardino-Balkar Republic , Stavropol Krai ....

. Currently the capital of Abazinsky District
Abazinsky District
Abazinsky District is an administrative and a municipal district , one of the ten in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Russia. Its administrative center is the rural locality of Inzhich-Chukun. District's population:...

, it was a part of Khabezsky District
Khabezsky District
Khabezsky District is an administrative and a municipal district , one of the ten in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Russia. Its administrative center is the rural locality of Khabez. District's population: 31,885 ; Population of Khabez accounts for 18.1% of the district's population....

 prior to creation of the said district in Abazinia
Abazinia
Abazinia, Abazashta or Abaza is a historical country at the northern mountainside of the Caucasus Major, now the northern part of Karachay-Cherkessian Republic, Russia. Abazinia is a home of the Abazins, a people related to the Abkhaz people and speaking the Abazin language.Abazinia once was a part...

 territory.

Located on the banks of Maly Zelenchuk River, it was founded by Russians in 1861. In 1925, its original name Zelenchuksko-Loovsky (Зеленчукско-Лоовский) was changed to Inzhich-Chukun, the Russified local name of Maly Zelenchuk, due to Bolshevik
Bolshevik
The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists , derived from bol'shinstvo, "majority") were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903....

 policy of removing the names of nobility
Russian nobility
The Russian nobility arose in the 14th century and essentially governed Russia until the October Revolution of 1917.The Russian word for nobility, Dvoryanstvo , derives from the Russian word dvor , meaning the Court of a prince or duke and later, of the tsar. A nobleman is called dvoryanin...

 (Loovsky in this case) from the names of locations.

Inzhich-Chukun today has a population of around 2000 people, composed mainly of Abazins
Abazins
The Abazins are a people who live mostly in Karachay-Cherkessia and Adygea of Russia.An Abazin diaspora exists in Turkey, Jordan, Syria, Egypt , and other Islamic countries, most of which are descendants of refugees from the Caucasian War...

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