Nazran okrug

Nazran okrug Назрановский округ
Okrug
Location in the Terek Oblast
Country	Russian Empire
Viceroyalty	Caucasus
Oblast	Terek
Established	1905
Abolished	1924
Capital	Vladikavkaz
Area
• Total	1,526.14 km2 (589.25 sq mi)
Population  (1916)
• Total	59,046
• Density	39/km2 (100/sq mi)
• Rural	100.00%

The Nazran okrug,^[a] known after March 1917 as the Ingush okrug,^[b] was a district (okrug) of the Terek Oblast of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire, and after 1921, the Mountain ASSR of the Russian SFSR within the Soviet Union. The district was modest in its population of 59 thousand and size of approximately 1,500 square kilometres (580 sq mi), the smallest of all the Terek Oblast's subdivisions in both measures. The administrative centre of the district was the city of Vladikavkaz.

Due to the Tsarist government's redistribution of land to Cossacks, local peasantry were forced to rent land from the Cossack landowners. As a result of the constant hostilities with the neighbouring Cossacks, the district was formed in 1905 as a separate subdivision for Ingush people. Control of the district passed between the Mountainous Republic of the North Caucasus, the Terek Soviet Republic, and the Armed Forces of South Russia, until finally passing to the control of the Red Army. The area of the Nazran okrug presently corresponds to part of the North Caucasian Federal District of Russia.

According to statistics dated to 1916, the district was almost exclusively populated by North Caucasians—predominantly Ingush—with Russians forming less than 1 percent of the population. The district contained 135 settlements, some of which underwent a series of repressions due to raids by local Ingush outlaws.
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