Tolstoy-Yurt
thumb|Tolstoy-Yurt Tolstoy-Yurt (; ) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Groznensky District of the Chechen Republic, Russia. Population: The town is named after the Russian author Leo Tolstoy.
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- Locality
- Толстой-Юрт
- Region
- Чечня
- Country
- Россия
- Population
- 7,772
- Timezone
- Europe/Moscow
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thumb|Tolstoy-Yurt Tolstoy-Yurt (; ) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Groznensky District of the Chechen Republic, Russia. Population: The town is named after the Russian author Leo Tolstoy.
In 2005, Aslan Maskhadov, the third president of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, was reportedly killed in fighting in the locality of Tolstoy-Yurt. Maskhadov was reportedly killed when a Russian special forces soldier threw a grenade into his bunker.
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