Vedensky district is situated in the southeast of Chechnya. In Vedensky you can find “the pearl of Caucasus” – Kezenoy-am lake (Blue lake), the biggest lake in North Caucasus. On the way to Kezenoy-am there are several old settlements – Karachoy, ancient Khoi, Kazenoy fortress, Makazhoy the old land of Cheberloy clans – ” the land of mountain-dwellers”.

 

Kharachoy village is one of the main stopovers on the way to Kezenoy-am lake. It is an old ancestral village and place of birth of Abrekov Zelimkhan. Like every old village, it had its own watchtower which was destroyed during the 1990’s wars . A symbolical tower was rebuilt in 2012.

The village was in the way of intense fighting during the 1st and 2nd Russian war but it was spared from destruction.

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