Monument to Khasanov A.G.

Khasanov Aliy Gerievich was born in the village of Khurzuk, Batalpashinsky district, Kuban region, into a family of a clergyman. During the Civil War, he served with the Reds as a translator in the Bashkir Division of the IX Army in the North Caucasus in 1920. He founded the first party school in the district and worked there as a teacher in the city of Kislovodsk. Then he became the chairman of the Karachay Revolutionary Committee and the secretary of the Karachay Organizational Bureau of the RCP(b).

From the beginning of June 1926, he was the deputy prosecutor of the Karachay Autonomous Region, and in 1927, he became the interim chairman of the regional court of the KAO. From 1931, he worked as the deputy representative of the KAO to the All-Russian Central Executive Committee in Moscow, but was expelled from the party in 1934 for violations and was only reinstated in 1935. From 1935 to 1937, he was the chairman of the city council of the city of Mikoyan-Shakhar (Karachayevsk).

However, in 1937, he was arrested and sentenced to death. Subsequently, Aliy Khasanov was rehabilitated, and in 2001, this monument was erected. Until 1957, a monument to I.V. Stalin stood in this place. After the rehabilitation and the return of the Karachay people to their historical homeland, the monument to Joseph Stalin was dismantled (according to legend, it was carried by hand to the bridge over the Kuban River in the village of Kamennomostsky and thrown into the water.