In 1926, the village was the center of the Achalukovsky District of the
Ingush Autonomous Oblast and at the same time the center of the Psedakh village council which in addition to Psedakh, also included farms of Vostochny Sovetsky, Doholber, Zapadny Sovetsky, and Mazaevsky which arose in 1920–1921. In the village itself, there were 344 households (325 peasants and 19 non-peasant), and 1802 people lived (884 males and 918 females).[5]
Until 1944, the village was the administrative center of the Psedakhsky District of the
Chechen-Ingush ASSR. In 1944, after the
Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush and the abolition of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, the village of Psedakh was renamed Alanskoe.[14] After the
restoration of Chechen-Ingush autonomy in 1957, the settlement was returned to its former name – Psedakh.
Geography
The village of Psedakh on the map of the Ingush district in 1853.The village of Psedakh on the map of the Ingush district in 1869.The village Psedakh on the map of Sunzhensky (Ingush) otdel in 1892
The village is located in the western part of the
Malgobeksky District and is located south of the district center of the city of
Malgobek, 35 km in a straight line northwest of the city of
Magas, the capital of Ingushetia. In the northeast, the village of
Sagopshi adjoins Psedakh, in the west – the village of
Inarki, the nearest settlement in the southeast is
Geyrbek-Yurt [
ru], in the southwest —
Batako [
ru] (
North Ossetia).
The settlement is located at the northern foot of the
Sunzha Range [
ru], in the foothill zone. To the south of the village rises Mount Musakai (872.5 m), and to the southeast – Mount Babalo (818.1 m). Altitude fluctuations in the village are 420–540 meters above sea level.[15]
The hydrographic network is represented by the small river Psedakh, which originates on the northern slope of Mount Musakai and flows through the village. To the west of it, also on the northern slope of the Sunzha Range, the
Zhoronka [
ru] river originates.[16]
The climate is
moderately cold humid (Dfb). The amplitude of air temperature ranges from an average of +21.7°С in July to an average of −3.5°С in January. The average annual rainfall is 677 mm. The main amount of precipitation falls between April and August.[17]
Notes
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ab • Commonly mentioned as 'Dolakoa' (
Ingush: Долакоа),[1][2] however the village was sometimes mentioned as 'Duola-Koa' (
Ingush: Дуола-Коа)[3] or 'Dola-Koa' (
Ingush: Дола-Коа).[4]
Мальсагов, З. К. (1963). Оздоева, Ф. (ed.).
Грамматика ингушского языка [Grammar of the Ingush language] (in Ingush and Russian). Vol. 5 (2nd ed.). Грозный: Чечено-Ингушское Книжное Издательство. pp. 1–164.
Оздоев, И. А. (1980). Оздоева, Ф. Г.; Куркиев, А. С. (eds.).
Русско-ингушский словарь: 40 000 слов [Russian-Ingush dictionary: 40,000 words] (in Ingush and Russian). Москва: Русский язык. pp. 1–832.
Барахоева, Н. М.; Кодзоев, Н. Д.; Хайров, Б. А. (2016).
Ингушско-русский словарь терминов [Ingush-Russian dictionary of terms] (in Ingush and Russian) (2nd ed.). Нальчик: ООО «Тетраграф». pp. 1–288.
Кодзоев, Н. Д. (2021). Хайрова, Р. Р. (ed.).
Русско-ингушский словарь [Russian-Ingush dictionary] (in Ingush and Russian). Ростов-на-Дону. pp. 1–656.
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