This is not about Ingush – Many areas of modern Ingushetia (, Malgobek) goes from the one territorial unit to another. One center was not until 1905 – 1906, when the Nazran district took shape. However, due to lack of appropriate conditions for managerial staff, district administration has been temporarily moved to Vladikavkaz. Subsequently, it became a major argument in favor of the Ingush people of their historical rights to Vladikavkaz. All these reasons already in 1900 e leads to an increase in the number of small clashes on the border stay Ossetians and Ingush, which resulted in the massacre Ossetian village Olginskiy in 1907. At the beginning of the Civil War, in November 1918, a new Public education – Republic. It also includes the Terek and the Dagestan region and .

As a result, mountain and lowland populations was presented as a unified nation. In the spring of 1919 is armed conflict Ossetians and Ingush in Vladikavkaz. The Government of the Mountain Republic was declared "proingushskim" and was forced to flee to Tbilisi. Another attempt to establish a "Republic of the mountaineers of North Caucasus" under Turkish patronage also was not viable. The first variant of the Soviet administrative-territorial division in the Caucasus refers to 1921 and differed little from the last empire, excluding the allocation of Terek province. In the next version in 1922 was taken as a basis for the principle of national self-determination, which led to the release of Ingush Autonomous – were first delineated ethnic boundaries of the Ingush people.