In the 1770s, unusual conversations could be heard in Chechnya. Russians, upon meeting a mountaineer with a burned face, jokingly asked: "What, friend, were you not eating soup in Naura?" A traveler unfamiliar with local realities did not understand what was being referred to, but the locals immediately grasped the hint. This phrase referred to the defense of the Naurskaya stanitsa, when over a hundred Cossack women repelled an attack by a 9,000-strong army. But what does soup have to do with it? The story goes...

In 1768, the war with the Ottoman Empire began, and all able-bodied men from the Naurskaya stanitsa went to the front. Only children, women, and the elderly remained in the village. This was taken advantage of by the Crimean Khan Devlet-Giray. With the support of the Kabardian prince Kurgoko Tatarkhanov, he gathered a 9,000-strong army and headed for Naurskaya. According to legend, on that summer day, the women, dressed in festive dresses, were on their way to church when they suddenly heard noise and saw hordes of enemies.

Fortunately, the stanitsa was well fortified. The Cossack women climbed the walls and began to throw stones at the enemy, pouring boiling tar on them, and when that ran out, they started heating soup in their homes and pouring the boiling broth on the heads of the Tatars and Kabardians. They stabbed the mountaineers who climbed the walls with knives and sickles. Later, they managed to load the cannons, and cannonballs rained down on the enemy. Not expecting such resistance, Devlet-Giray ordered a retreat.

The women anticipated a second assault and tried to call for help from neighboring stanitsas by lighting signal fires. But no one came... Later it turned out that the residents of other villages thought the Naurs were just having fun and shooting into the air. Fortunately for the Cossack women, the next day the Tatars refused to attack due to the death of the khan's nephew, which they considered a bad omen, and left Chechnya. The story of the battle was passed down for a long time in Chechnya, and the episode of pouring hot soup on the enemies became a legend.