![]() The Russians solved the problem by placing a cannon at a carefully chosen point outside the walls. As the fort was being built, the workers were fired upon by the Chechens. ![]() fearsome – a feminine form of Grozny, as the word fortress, " крепость", is feminine in Russian) was founded in 1818 as a Russian military outpost on the Sunzha River by general Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov. See also: Timeline of Grozny Russian fort In December 2005, the Chechen parliament voted to rename the city "Akhmad-Kala" (after Akhmad Kadyrov) – a proposition which was rejected by his son Ramzan Kadyrov, the prime minister and later president of the republic. In 1996, during the First Chechen War, the Chechen separatists renamed the city Dzhokhar-Ghala ( Chechen: Джовхар-ГӀала, Dƶovxar-Ġala), literally Dzhokhar City, or Dzhokhar/ Djohar for short, after Dzhokhar Dudayev, the first president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. While the official name in Chechen is the same, informally the city is known as " Соьлжа-Гӏала" (" Sölƶa-Ġala"), which literally means "the city ( гӏала) on the Sunzha River ( Соьлжа)". In Russian, "Grozny" means "fearsome", "menacing", or "redoubtable", the same word as in Ivan Grozny ( Ivan the Terrible). It was previously known as Groznaya (until 1870). According to the 2010 census, it had a population of 271,573 - up from 210,720 recorded in the 2002 census, but still only about two-thirds of 399,688 recorded in the 1989 census. ![]() Grozny (Russian: Грозный, IPA: Chechen: Соьлжа-ГӀала, romanized: Sölƶa-Ġala), also spelled Groznyy, is the capital city of Chechnya, Russia.
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