reached the mountainous Khachara in Central Chechnya. There Gheza and his army closed the entrance of the Argun gorge and surrounded their army, killing half of them, including a prominent Avar scientist named Atanasil Husayn. The Russian-German General Adolf Berge writes in 1859: "The Avars, seeing that they were barred from retreat, tried to break through, but were instantly surrounded and scattered, with more than half of them exterminated. Since then, the Chechens have a saying to evoke the idea of a huge amount of worthless things, they say: "it is cheaper than the Avar hats on Argun." References Chechen people Chechen politicians 1600 births