Some Issues Of Socio-Economic Consequences Of Ingushetia's Accession To Russia

This article analyses some socio-economic consequences of the incorporation of a North Caucasian region into the Russian Empire in 1770. Vladikavkaz railway that was built from Rostov to Beslan played an important role in the economic conquest of the outskirts of the country and brought the Northern Caucasus closer to the internal provinces of the empire and strengthened economic ties between them. Ingushetia, like many other regions of the North Caucasus, was being drawn into the mainstream of capitalist development. This period brought entrepreneurs, merchants and representatives of the rural bourgeoisie into the Ingush population. This paper points out that the years of Ingushetia's existence as part of the Sunzhensky Cossack Division were particularly difficult, and that changes in all areas were noticeable after the formation of the Nazranovsky district. The article shows that the 1917 revolution was a turning point in the lives of all the peoples of the North Caucasus. The article points out that the most acute problem for the Ingush in this period was the agrarian question. The measures of the Tsarist authorities were aimed at solving this issue. The phenomena of land leasing and landlessness, characteristic of this period, led to the break-up of large families and the transition of mountaineers from communal to backyard land tenure, which sped up the development of capitalist relations. The most important achievements in the period under consideration were in the economic field; alongside commercial farming, commercial livestock farming developed, although here too there were problems.