
Itum-Kale (, , Iton-Qälla), also spelled as Itum-Kali () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Itum-Kalinsky District, the Chechen Republic, Russia. Population: 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.
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Itum-Kale (, , Iton-Qälla), also spelled as Itum-Kali () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Itum-Kalinsky District, the Chechen Republic, Russia. Population: 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.
==Events in the Second Chechen War== During the 1999-2000 siege of Grozny, and after its fall to Russian forces, large numbers of refugees headed toward Georgia through Itum-Kale. In November and December 1999, Russian forces bombarded refugees passing through the town, killing several.
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