Alkun

Alkun (; ) is a rural locality (a selo) in Sunzhensky District of the Republic of Ingushetia, Russia, located on both banks of the Assa River. It forms the municipality of the rural settlement of Alkun as the only settlement in its composition.

The exact time of the establishment of Alkun can't be established from documents. The area of the village was inhabited by Ingush during the Late Middle Ages and the village can be considered one of the oldest in the plain Ingushetia. Since 1830s, Alkun was marked on Russian maps. In 1860, the population of Alkun was evicted by the Russian authorities and their land was given to the Cossacks, who established their settlements on the site of the former Alkun. In 1873, with the permission of the Russian authorities, the Alkun khutor (later the Lower Alkun) was established by settlers from the Khamkhin society of mountainous Ingushetia, and in 1874 the Serali Opiev's khutor (later Upper Alkun) was established by settlers from the village of .