Short answers, pulled from the story.
Ancient Georgian sources called these ancestors Caucasians or Dzurdzuks. Scholars link the ethnogenesis of Proto-Ingush tribes directly to the people who created Koban artifacts between the 12th and 4th centuries BC.
On the 23rd of February 1944, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin ordered Operation Lentil which deported the entire Ingush and Chechen populations to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Siberia. Up to 30 percent perished during transit or the first year of exile due to hunger, cold, and disease.
Magas became the new capital of the Ingush Republic in 1995 following armed clashes over Prigorodny District that occurred in October and November 1992. The city sits within present-day Ingushetia where the historical Alan capital Magas once stood.
Linguist Johanna Nichols described Ingush as the most complex language in her sample set surpassing polysynthetic languages like Seneca or Lakhota despite lacking their structure. Complexity arises from large inventories of phonemes, cases, tenses, and high inflectional synthesis requiring thirty years to produce a full grammar.
On March 4 to 6, 1770, twenty-four Ingush elders swore an oath of allegiance to the Russian Empire at Barta-Bos near Angusht village. German academician J.A. Güldenstädt attended and documented this ceremony in his travel writings.