 It was estimated that 80% of the Ingush left Ingushetia for the Middle East in 1865.Lowland Chechens as well were evicted in large numbers, and while many came back, the former Chechen Lowlands lacked their historical Chechen populations for a long period until Chechens were settled in the region during their return from their 1944–1957 deportation to Siberia.The Arshtins, at that time a (debatably) separate people, were completely wiped out as a distinct group