Formation Of The Ingush Autonomous Region After Collapse Of The Mountain Republic

The paper presents the analysis of the preconditions, results and consequences of the creation of the Ingush Autonomous Region in 1924 after the collapse of the Mountain Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, which was the first original experience of the Soviet version of the mountain integrism. The most important achievements marked the studied period in the field of cultural construction and education. The rapid growth of school network, the coverage of almost the entire population with primary and secondary education, the elimination of illiteracy – these phenomena common to the entire post-revolutionary Soviet reality were of particular importance for Ingushetia, which entered the twentieth century as the next-to-last part of the Terek region in terms of literacy. It was very important that, as a result of the transformations of the early 1920s it became possible to fold the Ingush statehood around the historical, cultural and economic center of Ingushetia – Vladikavkaz, which became the administrative center of the Ingush Autonomous Region during its ten-year existence. The authors state that the steps of the Soviet government to establish administrative-territorial boundaries between new autonomous entities laid the foundation for future national conflicts. It is noted that the first years of the existence of the Ingush autonomy were especially difficult, as the tasks were to eliminate the severe consequences of the Civil War and improve the daily life of the population.