ON THE GENEALOGY OF TSONTAROY TAIP (Article 1)
The article makes a comparative analysis of the family lists of the residents of Ichkerinsky dis- family lists of the residents of Ichkerinsky dis family lists of the residents of Ichkerinsky district in 1867 [1] and the village of Tsentoroy in 1886 [2]. Certain written sources and legends written from the words of elders of the village of Tsentaroy in Nozhay-Yurtovsky district, the village of Teza-Khalla in Vedensky district, as well as the residents of neighboring villages, preserved to the present day, are used. A list of the names of Korni's descendants is compiled based on available material. Information on the names of the dead and the victims of socio-political events in Chechnya (the Caucasian war, the national liberation movement in Chechnya in 1860-1870s, the Civil War in Russia, the repression in 1930s, and the Chechen people deportation in 1944) will be analyzed and summarized in subsequent studies when considering each family. The irreparable damage was also caused by tragic events in the village of Tsentoroy with the participation of Korni-nekje (the branch of the Tsontaroy taip at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. During field studies, we found kinship with Turpalkhan's descendants (the village of Bachi-Yurt in Kurchaloevsky district) lost more than 170 years ago due to tragic events in the village of Tsentaroy. The ninety-six names of Chalbig's descendants who live mainly in the Chechen Republic (Nozhay-Yurtovsky, Groznensky, Gudermessky, Kurchaloevsky, Naursky, Urus-Martanovsky, Achkhoy-Martanovsky, Shalinsky, Shelkovsky districts) and the Republic of Dagestan (Baba-Yurtovsky, Kazbekovsky, Novolaksky, Khasavyurtovsky districts).