Panorama Valerik (river). Virtual tour of Valerik (river)
Valerik (Chech. Valarta, Valerig, Valerg) - a river in Russia, flows in the Chechen Republic. The mouth of the river is located 132 km along the right bank of the Sunzha River. The length of the river is 29 km. The lower course of the river dries up in summer due to the fact that Valerik belongs to the type of rivers that originate from springs and are deprived of glacial and high-mountain snow supply. Therefore, due to the annual summer drying up, there is no flood here.
Etymology
Its name in the Chechen language is etymologized from the original Valeran khi - literally - "river of death". In the future, through natural transformations - Valerig, Valerg - acquired its current name. According to one version, this river served as the border between the Vainakhs and the Iranian peoples who lived in the steppe and, probably, often became the site of bloody battles between these peoples. In the future, this was the reason for such a terrible name.
In 1840, two battles took place on the river between the North Caucasian highlanders under the command of Naib Akhberdil Muhammad and the Russian Chechen detachment, Lieutenant General A.V. Galafeev, advancing towards inner Chechnya. The Russians under the command of Apollon Galafeev (first battle) and Pavel Grabbe (second battle) defeated the rebellious highlanders on July 11 and October 30, respectively. After losing these battles, the murids of Imam Shamil left Chechnya and retreated to the Avar Khanate. A decade later, on October 26, 1850, the battle of the Russian imperial army with the highlanders again took place here, for participation in which Tsarevich Alexander Nikolayevich (later Emperor Alexander II) received the Order of St. George 4th degree.
culture
The battle at the Valerik River is beautifully described in Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov's poem "Valerik". The great Russian poet was a participant in both battles and was recognized as a hero. For the courage shown in the battle of Valerik, Lermontov was presented to the Order of Vladimir, 4th degree. However, he never received this award, since he was deleted from the final list of those awarded by Emperor Nicholas I, who had a strong dislike for the disgraced poet.
Water registry data
According to the state water register of Russia, it belongs to the Western Caspian Basin District, the water management section of the river - Sunzha from the source to the city of Grozny, there is no river sub-basin of the river - Sub-basin. The river basin of the river - Rivers of the Caspian Sea basin between the Terek and the Volga. According to the geoinformation system for water management zoning of the territory of the Russian Federation, prepared by the Federal Agency for Water Resources: Water body code in the state water registry - 07020001112108200005635 Code for hydrological exploration (HI) - 108200563 Basin code - 07.02.00.011 Volume number for GI - 08 Issue for GI - 2
Battle of Lieutenant Lermontov
On July 23, 1840, Russian soldiers defeated a large detachment of Imam Shamil's troops near the Valerik River.
This battle was one of many during the Caucasian War, which lasted almost half a century. But thanks to the poetic genius of Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, the battle near the Valerik River gained wide popularity, forever entering Russian history and literature. After all, Lieutenant of the Tenginsky Infantry Regiment Lermontov not only participated in that battle, but also showed considerable courage on July 23 (July 11, according to the old style), 1840, inherent in a real Russian warrior.
In that battle, the detachments of the Russian general Apollon Vasilyevich Galafeev and one of the closest associates of Imam Shamil, "naib" Akhberdil Muhammad, clashed. General Galafeev was an experienced military man, a participant in the war of 1812. On July 18, 1840, his detachment set out from the Groznaya fortress (now the city of Grozny) to reach the area of the Chechen village of Achkhoi-Martan and, joining up with another Russian detachment marching from the territory of Ingushetia, to suppress the uprisings in the south of Chechnya.
The path of the Russian detachment ran through the mountains overgrown with forests, and before passing to Achkhoy, it was necessary to force the Valerik River. Its shores overgrown with dense forests were very convenient for defense, which Naib Akhberdil hurried to take advantage of, having fortified here with 6 thousand Chechen fighters.
The detachment of General Galafeev consisted of 2 thousand infantrymen, about 1.4 thousand Don and Terek Cossacks and 14 guns. The enemy sat down behind the rubble of trees on the opposite steep bank. Russian soldiers had to attack the positions of the Chechens, fording a mountain river under rifle fire.
Among those who attacked the enemy in the forefront was Lieutenant Lermontov. He was entrusted with the most dangerous task - to maintain communication between the forward column of attackers and the headquarters of General Galafeev. Later, the poet described the battle as follows:
And two hours in the jets of the stream
The fight went on. cut brutally
Like animals, silently, with breasts,
The stream was blocked with bodies.
I wanted to scoop up water ...
(And the heat and the battle tired
Me), but muddy wave
It was warm, it was red.
After two hours of firefight and hand-to-hand combat, Russian soldiers drove the enemy out of the rubble on the banks of the Valerik River, but the fights in the forest more often lasted a total of six hours. The leader of the Chechens, Naib Akhberdil, was wounded and began to retreat, and all the Chechens ran after him.
On the battlefield, the Russians counted more than 150 enemy corpses, but the Chechens took some of the dead with them, and many corpses were simply not found in the forest rubble. Russian losses amounted to 79 killed and missing, as well as over two hundred wounded.
Since the time of Suvorov and the battles with Napoleon, our soldiers have called battles and battles with the simple word “business”, and they called especially cruel hand-to-hand fights “fun”. And Lieutenant Lermontov described the “case” by the Valerik River in this way - no longer in verse, but in prose - in a letter to one of his friends: “We had business every day, and one rather hot one that lasted 6 hours in a row. We were only 2,000 infantry, and there were up to 6,000 of them; and fought with bayonets all the time. We lost 30 officers and up to 300 privates, and their 600 bodies remained in place ... Imagine that in the ravine, where there was fun, an hour after the case it still smelled of blood.
In verse, the poet described the end of the battle and the continuation of the endless war:
Everything is already quiet; body
Pulled into a heap; blood flowed
A smoky stream over the stones,
Her heavy fumes
The air was full. General
Sat in the shade on a drum
And received messages.
The surrounding forest, as if in a fog,
Blue in powder smoke.
And there, in the distance, a disorderly ridge,
But always proud and calm,
Mountains stretched - and Kazbek
Glittered with a pointed head.
And with secret and heartfelt sadness
I thought: pathetic person.
What does he want!.. the sky is clear,
Under the sky there is a lot of space for everyone,
But incessantly and in vain
He alone is at enmity - why?
Galub interrupted my dreaming,
Hit on the shoulder. He was
My kunak: I asked him
What is the name of this place?
He answered me: Valerik,
And translate into your language
So will the river of death: right,
Given by old people.
- And how many of them fought approximately
Today? — Thousand to seven.
— Have the Highlanders lost a lot?
— How to know? Why didn't you count!
Yes! will be, someone here said,
They remember this bloody day!
The Chechen looked slyly
And shook his head...
Lermontov’s personal courage was appreciated by the command, the official military reports about the poet say the following: “Lieutenant Lermontov of the Tengin Infantry Regiment, during the assault on enemy blockages on the Valerik River, was instructed to observe the actions of the advanced assault column and notify the head of the detachment about its successes, which was associated with the greatest danger for him from the enemy, hiding in the forest behind trees and bushes. But this officer, in spite of any dangers, fulfilled the assignment entrusted to him with excellent courage and composure, and with the first ranks of the bravest soldiers broke into the enemy rubble.
The victory at the Valerik River allowed the Russian detachment of General Galafeev to quickly reach the Achkhoi-Martan region. Here, the rebellious Chechen villages were sure that the Russians would not be able to pass beyond Valerik, and did not have time to evacuate to the mountains. The unexpected appearance of the Russians contributed to confusion in the ranks of Shamil's rebels, significantly complicating his actions against our troops. But the war in the Caucasus continued for a long time, as the brave poet Mikhail Lermontov predicted in his poems, written after the battle on July 23, 1840. http://rusplt.ru/wins/bitva-reka-valer ik-lermontov-27630.html
On July 23, 1840, Russian soldiers defeated a large detachment of Imam Shamil's troops near the Valerik River. This battle was one of many during the Caucasian War, which lasted almost half a century. But thanks to the poetic genius of Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, the battle near the Valerik River gained wide popularity, forever entering Russian history and literature. After all, Lieutenant of the Tenginsky Infantry Regiment Lermontov not only participated in that battle, but also showed considerable courage on July 23 (July 11, according to the old style), 1840, inherent in a real Russian warrior.
In that battle, the detachments of the Russian general Apollon Vasilyevich Galafeev and one of the closest associates of Imam Shamil, "naib" Akhberdil Muhammad, clashed. General Galafeev was an experienced military man, a participant in the war of 1812. On July 18, 1840, his detachment set out from the Groznaya fortress (now the city of Grozny) to reach the area of the Chechen village of Achkhoi-Martan and, joining up with another Russian detachment marching from the territory of Ingushetia, to suppress the uprisings in the south of Chechnya.
The path of the Russian detachment ran through the mountains overgrown with forests, and before passing to Achkhoy, it was necessary to force the Valerik River. Its shores overgrown with dense forests were very convenient for defense, which Naib Akhberdil hurried to take advantage of, having fortified here with 6 thousand Chechen fighters.
The detachment of General Galafeev consisted of 2 thousand infantrymen, about 1.4 thousand Don and Terek Cossacks and 14 guns. The enemy sat down behind the rubble of trees on the opposite steep bank. Russian soldiers had to attack the positions of the Chechens, fording a mountain river under rifle fire.
Among those who attacked the enemy in the forefront was Lieutenant Lermontov. He was entrusted with the most dangerous task - to maintain communication between the forward column of attackers and the headquarters of General Galafeev. Later, the poet described the battle as follows:
And two hours in the jets of the stream
The fight went on. cut brutally
Like animals, silently, with breasts,
The stream was blocked with bodies.
I wanted to scoop up water ...
(And the heat and the battle tired
Me), but muddy wave
It was warm, it was red.
After two hours of firefight and hand-to-hand combat, Russian soldiers drove the enemy out of the rubble on the banks of the Valerik River, but the fights in the forest more often lasted a total of six hours. The leader of the Chechens, Naib Akhberdil, was wounded and began to retreat, and all the Chechens ran after him.
On the battlefield, the Russians counted more than 150 enemy corpses, but the Chechens took some of the dead with them, and many corpses were simply not found in the forest rubble. Russian losses amounted to 79 killed and missing, as well as over two hundred wounded.
Since the time of Suvorov and the battles with Napoleon, our soldiers have called battles and battles with the simple word “business”, and they called especially cruel hand-to-hand fights “fun”. And Lieutenant Lermontov described the “case” by the Valerik River in this way - no longer in verse, but in prose - in a letter to one of his friends: “We had business every day, and one rather hot one that lasted 6 hours in a row. We were only 2,000 infantry, and there were up to 6,000 of them; and fought with bayonets all the time. We lost 30 officers and up to 300 privates, and their 600 bodies remained in place ... Imagine that in the ravine, where there was fun, an hour after the case it still smelled of blood.
In verse, the poet described the end of the battle and the continuation of the endless war:
Pulled into a heap; blood flowed
A smoky stream over the stones,
Her heavy fumes
The air was full. General
Sat in the shade on a drum
And received messages.
The surrounding forest, as if in a fog,
Blue in powder smoke.
And there, in the distance, a disorderly ridge,
But always proud and calm,
Mountains stretched - and Kazbek
Glittered with a pointed head.
And with secret and heartfelt sadness
I thought: pathetic person.
What does he want!.. the sky is clear,
Under the sky there is a lot of space for everyone,
But incessantly and in vain
He alone is at enmity - why?
Galub interrupted my dreaming,
Striking on the shoulder; he was
My kunak: I asked him
What is the name of this place?
He answered me: Valerik,
And translate into your language
So will the river of death: right,
Given by old people.
- And how many of them fought approximately
Today? - Thousand to seven.
- Did the highlanders lose a lot?
- How do you know? - Why didn't you count!
Yes! will be, someone here said,
They remember this bloody day!
The Chechen looked slyly
And shook his head.
Lermontov’s personal courage was appreciated by the command, the official military reports about the poet say the following: “Lieutenant Lermontov of the Tengin Infantry Regiment, during the assault on enemy blockages on the Valerik River, was instructed to observe the actions of the advanced assault column and notify the head of the detachment about its successes, which was associated with the greatest danger for him from the enemy, hiding in the forest behind trees and bushes. But this officer, in spite of any dangers, fulfilled the assignment entrusted to him with excellent courage and composure, and with the first ranks of the bravest soldiers broke into the enemy rubble.
The victory at the Valerik River allowed the Russian detachment of General Galafeev to quickly reach the Achkhoi-Martan region. Here, the rebellious Chechen villages were sure that the Russians would not be able to pass beyond Valerik, and did not have time to evacuate to the mountains. The unexpected appearance of the Russians contributed to confusion in the ranks of Shamil's rebels, significantly complicating his actions against our troops. But the war in the Caucasus continued for a long time, as the brave poet Mikhail Lermontov predicted in his poems, written after the battle on July 23, 1840.
This battle was one of many during the Caucasian War, which lasted almost half a century. But thanks to the poetic genius of Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, the battle near the Valerik River gained wide popularity, forever entering Russian history and literature. After all, Lieutenant of the Tenginsky Infantry Regiment Lermontov not only participated in that battle, but also showed considerable courage on July 23 (July 11, according to the old style), 1840, inherent in a real Russian warrior.
In that battle, the detachments of the Russian general Apollon Vasilyevich Galafeev and one of the closest associates of Imam Shamil, "naib" Akhberdil Muhammad, clashed. General Galafeev was an experienced military man, a participant in the war of 1812. On July 18, 1840, his detachment set out from the Groznaya fortress (now the city of Grozny) to reach the area of the Chechen village of Achkhoi-Martan and, joining up with another Russian detachment marching from the territory of Ingushetia, to suppress the uprisings in the south of Chechnya.
The path of the Russian detachment ran through the mountains overgrown with forests, and before passing to Achkhoy, it was necessary to force the Valerik River. Its shores overgrown with dense forests were very convenient for defense, which Naib Akhberdil hurried to take advantage of, having fortified here with 6 thousand Chechen fighters.
The detachment of General Galafeev consisted of 2 thousand infantrymen, about 1.4 thousand Don and Terek Cossacks and 14 guns. The enemy sat down behind the rubble of trees on the opposite steep bank. Russian soldiers had to attack the positions of the Chechens, fording a mountain river under rifle fire.
Among those who attacked the enemy in the forefront was Lieutenant Lermontov. He was entrusted with the most dangerous task - to maintain communication between the forward column of attackers and the headquarters of General Galafeev. Later, the poet described the battle as follows:
And two hours in the jets of the stream
The fight went on. cut brutally
Like animals, silently, with breasts,
The stream was blocked with bodies.
I wanted to scoop up water ...
(And the heat and the battle tired
Me), but muddy wave
It was warm, it was red.
After two hours of firefight and hand-to-hand combat, Russian soldiers drove the enemy out of the rubble on the banks of the Valerik River, but the fights in the forest more often lasted a total of six hours. The leader of the Chechens, Naib Akhberdil, was wounded and began to retreat, and all the Chechens ran after him.
On the battlefield, the Russians counted more than 150 enemy corpses, but the Chechens took some of the dead with them, and many corpses were simply not found in the forest rubble. Russian losses amounted to 79 killed and missing, as well as over two hundred wounded.
Since the time of Suvorov and the battles with Napoleon, our soldiers have called battles and battles with the simple word “business”, and they called especially cruel hand-to-hand fights “fun”. And Lieutenant Lermontov described the “case” by the Valerik River in this way - no longer in verse, but in prose - in a letter to one of his friends: “We had business every day, and one rather hot one that lasted 6 hours in a row. We were only 2,000 infantry, and there were up to 6,000 of them; and fought with bayonets all the time. We lost 30 officers and up to 300 privates, and their 600 bodies remained in place ... Imagine that in the ravine, where there was fun, an hour after the case it still smelled of blood.
In verse, the poet described the end of the battle and the continuation of the endless war:
Everything is already quiet; body
Pulled into a heap; blood flowed
A smoky stream over the stones,
Her heavy fumes
The air was full. General
Sat in the shade on a drum
And received messages.
The surrounding forest, as if in a fog,
Blue in powder smoke.
And there, in the distance, a disorderly ridge,
But always proud and calm,
Mountains stretched - and Kazbek
Glittered with a pointed head.
And with secret and heartfelt sadness
I thought: pathetic person.
What does he want!.. the sky is clear,
Under the sky there is a lot of space for everyone,
But incessantly and in vain
He alone is at enmity - why?
Galub interrupted my dreaming,
Hit on the shoulder. He was
My kunak: I asked him
What is the name of this place?
He answered me: Valerik,
And translate into your language
So will the river of death: right,
Given by old people.
And how many of them fought approximately
Today? - Thousand to seven.
How many highlanders have lost?
How to know? Why didn't you count?
Yes! will be, someone here said,
They remember this bloody day!
The Chechen looked slyly
And shook his head...
Lermontov’s personal courage was appreciated by the command, the official military reports about the poet say the following: “Lieutenant Lermontov of the Tengin Infantry Regiment, during the assault on enemy blockages on the Valerik River, was instructed to observe the actions of the advanced assault column and notify the head of the detachment about its successes, which was associated with the greatest danger for him from the enemy, hiding in the forest behind trees and bushes. But this officer, in spite of any dangers, fulfilled the assignment entrusted to him with excellent courage and composure, and with the first ranks of the bravest soldiers broke into the enemy rubble.
The victory at the Valerik River allowed the Russian detachment of General Galafeev to quickly reach the Achkhoi-Martan region. Here, the rebellious Chechen villages were sure that the Russians would not be able to pass beyond Valerik, and did not have time to evacuate to the mountains. The unexpected appearance of the Russians contributed to confusion in the ranks of Shamil's rebels, significantly complicating his actions against our troops. But the war in the Caucasus continued for a long time, as the brave poet Mikhail Lermontov predicted in his poems, written after the battle on July 23, 1840.
