ETHNOTERRITORIAL STRUCTURE AND MOVING OF CHECHENS IN THE LAST THIRDS OF THE XVIII CENTURY IN WORKS OF THE ACADEMICIAN I. A. HULDENSHTEDT
The European traveler I.A. Huldenshtedt who has made the scientific description of the Chechen societies, found them in the developed look. The ethnic structure and moving were recorded numerous ethnotoponym. Sources testify that Chechens in the last third of the XVIII century were united in the territorial unions, rekonkist differed dynamism in process, but had no uniform statehood. I. A. Huldenshtedt applied for the first time terminology of the European science to traditional etonoterritorialny and socio-political associations of Chechens.