MosNews Chechen deputies have proposed renaming the republic’s capital Akhmad-Kala in memory of the slain Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov.
The members of the lower house of the Chechen parliament, the people’s assembly, decided on Wednesday to address the Russian authorities asking them to support their proposal to change the name from Grozny.
Akhmad Kadyrov was killed by an explosion on May 9, 2004, during a victory parade in the city.
The deputies said the name Grozny was not connected with Chechen history. The city was named Grozny in 1869 after the Russian fortress Groznaya (Severe) that was built in the area in 1818, on the orders of General Alexei Yermolov, the conqueror of Caucasus.
In January 1997 the president of the separatist regime, Aslan Maskhadov, called the city Dzhokhar-Kala, in memory of the first Chechen separatist leader, Dzhokhar Dudayev, killed by in the region’s first post-Soviet era war by Russian forces. Officially, however, it was still called Grozny.
Maskhadov himself was killed by Russian forces in March 2005. http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/12/14/nomoregrozny.shtml
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