Itum-Kale

Itum-Kale
Итум-Кале
Chechen: Итон-Кхаьлла
Village
A tower in Itum-Kale
Location of Itum-Kale
Itum-Kale
Location of Itum-Kale
Itum-Kale
Itum-Kale (Chechnya)
Coordinates: 42°44′4″N 45°44′31″E / 42.73444°N 45.74194°E / 42.73444; 45.74194
CountryRussia
Federal subjectChechnya
Administrative districtItum-Kalinsky district
Elevation
717 m (2,352 ft)
Population
  Estimate 
(2010)
1,068
Time zoneUTC+3 (MSK )
Postal code(s)
87164
OKTMO ID96611410101

Itum-Kale (Russian: Итум-Кале, Chechen: Итон-Кхаьлла, Iton-Qälla), also spelled as Itum-Kali (Russian: Итум-Кали) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Itum-Kalinsky District, the Chechen Republic, Russia. Population: 1,068(2010 Census); 2,916(2002 Census); In 1944 the area's Chechen inhabitants were deported on the order of Joseph Stalin and the area transferred to Georgia; this decision was reversed in the late 1950s and the Chechens who had survived were allowed to return.