Shelkovskaya is a rural locality (a stanitsa

Stanitsa

Stanitsa is a village inside a Cossack host . Stanitsas were the primary unit of Cossack hosts.Historically, the stanitsa was a unit of economic and political organisation of the Cossack peoples primarily in the southern regions of the Russian Empire.Much of the land was held in common by the...

) and the administrative center of Shelkovskoy District

Shelkovskoy District

Shelkovskoy District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the fifteen in the Chechen Republic, Russia. Its administrative center is the rural locality of Shelkovskaya. District's population: 50,233 ; Population of Shelkovskaya accounts for 19.1% of the district's population....

 of the Chechen Republic

Chechnya

The Chechen Republic , commonly referred to as Chechnya , also spelled Chechnia or Chechenia, sometimes referred to as Ichkeria , is a federal subject of Russia . It is located in the southeastern part of Europe in the Northern Caucasus mountains. The capital of the republic is the city of Grozny...

, Russia

Russia

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. Population:

Shelkovskaya was founded on the place where a small Chechen village (Moxne, lit. "place where is wind") previously stood. Half of the former residents of Mohne moved up north along the Terek River, where they started a new village called Buxne (it is now the town of Kizlyar

Kizlyar

Kizlyar is a town in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia, located in the delta of the Terek River northwest of Makhachkala. Population: 30,000 ....

 in the Republic of Dagestan). Both villages were later destroyed by the Mongols.