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The fortress of Groznaya (Гро́зная; lit. fearsome – a feminine form of Grozny, as the word fortress, "крепость", is feminine in Russian) was founded in 1818 [2] as a Russian military outpost on the Sunzha River by general Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov. As the fort was being built, the workers were fired upon by the Chechens.
The Russian writer M. Lermontov also participated in the battle. Movements of the Galafeyev detachment 6–14 July 1840. On 6 July the Galafeyev detachment set out from the Groznaya fortress and began destroying the fields and villages to the south and southwest of the fortress, as the inhabitants fled.
The extensive size of the Russian system led to high costs of construction and maintenance, and work on the fortifications slowed in the 1840s, leading to some fortress never being completed. The importance of the forts as military garrisons declined over the following decades, with some being used as prisons or warehouses in addition to barracks.
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1999 Russian bombing of Chechnya. 21 October: Grozny ballistic missile attack. [13] 3 December: Refugee convoy shooting occurs near city. 25 December: Battle of Grozny (1999–2000) begins. [13] [18] 2000 30 January: Mayor Lecha Dudayev killed. [19] February: Russian forces take city. [15] [20] 5 February: Novye Aldi massacre occurs near city.
Grozny (Russian: Гро́зный; masculine), Groznaya (Гро́зная; feminine), or Groznoye (Гро́зное; neuter) is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia: Urban localities Grozny , a city and the capital of the Chechen Republic
The First Battle of Grozny was the Russian Army's invasion and subsequent conquest of the Chechen capital, Grozny, during the early months of the First Chechen War.The attack would last from December 1994 to March 1995, which resulted in the military occupation of the city by the Russian Army and rallied most of the Chechen nation around the government of Dzhokhar Dudayev.
The 1999–2000 battle of Grozny or Operation Wolf Hunt was the siege and assault of the Chechen capital Grozny by Russian forces, lasting from late 1999 to early 2000. The siege and assault on the city resulted in the near total destruction of the urban area.