Kurchaloyevsky District

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Kurchaloyevsky District (Russian: Курчало́евский райо́н), also known as Kurchaloi District, is a raion (district) of the Chechen Republic, Russia. Located in the eastern part of the Republic, it is also home to Aleroj Teip (associated with the village of Aleroy) and birthplace of both former Chechen president Aslan Maskhadov and former Minister of Homeland Security Turpal-Ali Atgeriev. The administrative center of the District is the village of Kurchaloy.

In 2004, the District official data reported twenty villages with a population of 101,842 people, including 28,928 children (0-17 years) and 33,691 women of reproductive age. According to the 2002 Census, the population in 2002 was 101,625.

State health facilities are represented by one central district hospital in Kurchaloy, two district hospitals in Tsotsin-Yurt and Alleroy villages.