 During the 2008 Battle for Tskhinvali, the village was assaulted, on the night from 7 to 8 of August, by the Georgian government troops.The Georgian side accused the Ossetian militias of using the village as their base for shelling of the nearby villages earlier in August 2008 while South Ossetians claimed that Georgians had been shelling Khetagurovo from Avnevi"

Turkmen wild goat

The Turkmen wild goat or bearded goat ("Capra aegagrus turcmenica") is a vulnerable sub-species of wild goat native to Iran and Turkmenistan.Turkmen wild goats are present in scattered populations in the central Kopet Dagh along the border between Turkmenistan and Iran between, and in the Large Balkhan (Bolshye) north of Nebit Dagh.