 Therefore, the name of the village roughly translates as "settlement in the homeland".In 1944, after the genocide and deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was abolished, the village of Makhkety was renamed to Alak, and settled by people from the neighboring republic of Dagestan.From 1944 to 1957, it was a part of Grozny Oblast of the Russian SFSR.