Jeyrakh-Assin Reserve

Specialists of the Jeirakh-Assinsky Museum-Reserve, together with the specialists of "ASM Group" climbed one of the most inaccessible tower complexes in mountain Ingushetia - "Towers of two wives".

As a result of the works, 2 combat and 1 residential towers were marked, as well as 1 crypt and 1 stele. All towers are in an emergency condition.

Project partners - SAFMAR and Revival Charitable Foundations

Recently, an employee of the Jeirakh-Assinsky Museum-Reserve, during a planned bypass of the Erzi tower complex, in the masonry of an above-ground dilapidated crypt with an open memorial chamber located next to the core mausoleum of Yand-Kash, discovered a rectangular stone on which horizontal notches are carved in two rows, parallel to each other.

Many forms of use of cult stones existed in Ingush society. For example, often in the masonry of residential and battle towers you can see stones with holes or small cup-shaped depressions, symbolizing grace.

Researcher Tanzila Dzaurova, in his work “Ingush National Ornament” calls such a stone “calendar” and notes that they are found mainly in the crypt with a memorial chamber – “Kash-kov”. “And some of them are embedded in the masonry of a residential tower, which makes it difficult to determine their dating, because they are reused. This is evidenced by the location of stones with petroglyphs in the masonry, which, as a rule, differ from the color of the stones of the main masonry, as well as the methods of its processing.”

A number of Caucasian scientists and researchers V.N. Basilov, V.P. Kobychev, M.R. Uzhakhov, B.A. Khairov, Dzaurova T.A-Kh. and others agree that these stones served as a calendar in the past. The principle of action of these calendar stones, presumably, was based on the movement of the sun.

Similar crypts with a memorial chamber are also located on the territory of the tower complexes "Niy", "Ozdice", "Targim", "Khamhi", "Egikal", "Erzi".

Head of the State Protection Committee of the OKN RI Kodzoev T. U. and Acting Director of the Jeirakh-Assinsky Museum-Reserve Sampiev A. A. attended a festive event at the end of the academic year in the GBOU "SOSH 8 Nazran".

Ahmadkhan Alikhanovich congratulated the graduates on their graduation, wished them to outline a goal and go to it in the most correct ways, not to forget their teachers and mentors who gave them a start in life.

And the most important thing is to love, respect your land, your republic! “May you succeed, let only good luck and great prospects await you!”

Dzhirakh-Assinsky Museum-Reserve is a participant of the project competition "Russia - Country of Achievements". The project is aimed at forming a competitive tourist space within the boundaries of the Dzheyrakh-Assin State Historical, Architectural and Natural Museum-Reserve - a cultural and historical landscape of national importance, including unique reserves and auls.

The reserve is the largest museum of its kind in the whole country and covers an area of 64,000 hectares. Its territory contains up to 5,000 architectural and archaeological sites, such as burial crypts, pagan and Christian sanctuaries and temples, which represent the historical and architectural heritage of the region. One of the main attractions of the region are the Ingush towers.

The aim of the project is to develop domestic and inbound tourism in the region and in the macro-territory as a whole, as well as to preserve the historical, architectural and natural heritage of the region.

The objectives of the project are:

- increased tourist flow;

- formation of the brand of the Republic of Ingushetia;

formation of the project philosophy based on a new culture of responsible, ecological tourism and respect for nature;

- development of tourist and related infrastructure;

Creating attractive conditions for business;

- development of cultural ties between peoples.

Successful implementation of the project can lead to an improvement in the quality of life in the region. This is achieved through the development of tourist infrastructure located along the roads, as well as by improving the business environment. Both factors contribute to the development of services.

During the successful implementation of the project, many jobs will be created, both temporary and permanent. In particular, this is possible due to the development of small and medium-sized businesses in the region.

The development of our region is an important task facing us all. To solve it, it is necessary to combine efforts and use all available resources. That is why various projects aimed at accelerating economic growth, cultural interregional integration and technological development have been developed.

These initiatives will help our region reach a new level of development, improve the quality of life of people and create favorable conditions for business. However, in order for these projects to receive support at the federal level, it is necessary to collect a sufficient number of votes.

We count on your support and believe that together we can achieve significant results in the development of our republic. Let's make our region an even more prosperous and promising place to live and work.

Support initiatives and vote for them can be found at https://xn--d1acchc3adyj9k.xn--p1ai/

Project competition

Development of "Jeyrah-Assin State Historical, Architectural and Natural Museum - Reserve"

Region: Republic of Ingushetia

Nomination: Tourist project

Vote for the draft. Direct reference:

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These days, employees of the Dzhirakh-Assinsky Museum-Reserve together with the head of the State Protection Committee of OKN Kodzoev T.U. made an inspection trip to the Dzhirakh district, to the Meller and Musiykyongikoate tower complexes.

Meller is a tower settlement in the Jeirakh district, part of the rural settlement of Guli. Located in the south of the republic, northeast of Kerby, in a remote gorge. In the course of ongoing work on fixing and recording all objects of cultural heritage of mountain Ingushetia, 1 combat and 5 semi-combat towers, 13 residential towers, 1 water mill, 1 stone spring, as well as 30 burial grounds and 50 steles were identified and recorded in the complex. On the residential tower of the complex there are petroglyphs.

Particularly noteworthy is the preserved ground tower-shaped crypt of an elegant structure located on the outskirts of the village. The state of the crypt is extremely critical, emergency, it is on the verge of destruction and irretrievable loss. The crypt is three-tiered, its height is 9 meters, with a stepped-pyramidal roof, with a crowning cone-shaped stone.

Damaged rock base and collapsed corners of the crypt, jeopardize the stability of the entire object.

“This is one of the largest preserved land burial grounds on the territory of mountain Ingushetia,” said the head of the State Protection Committee of OKN Kodzoev T.U., “and its preservation is a fundamentally important task for us.” At the moment, work has begun on the development of scientific and project documentation for emergency work and we will look for sources of funding for their successful implementation.”

“We need to make every effort to ensure that this object does not repeat the fate of the Tsorinsky crypt,” A.A. Sampiev, acting director of the museum-reserve, added.

Musiykyongikoate is a medieval tower settlement of Ingushetia, on its territory there are many historical objects of medieval Ingush architecture. Located east of Niicoate, the battle tower of the complex is destroyed. It is located within the boundaries of the territory of the Jeirakh-Assinsky Museum-Reserve. Subject to state protection.

According to the “List of populated areas of the Military Ossetian District of 1859”, there were 15 yards in the village of Musiykyongiykote and 90 people (40 men and 45 women) lived. In "Information about settlements of Sunzha department of Terek region". 1891" the following information was given: "The village of Musiyevo is located at a spring called "Musi-Hast. Courtyards - 12, men - 52, women - 41. Total: 93.”.

On May 24, as part of the work plan to supervise restoration, conservation and emergency work aimed at preserving historical and architectural objects of mountain Ingushetia, the head of the State Protection Committee of the OKN Kodzoev T.U. and acting director Sampiev A.A. made an inspection trip to the architectural complex "Keli".

Restoration works, which are carried out at the complex, are carried out by specialists of the ASM GROUP, according to the design and estimate documentation approved by the Government of the Republic, with financial support from the SAFMAR and Vozrozhdenie charitable foundations.

As a result of the supervision, violations, on the work carried out were not revealed.

Keli is a castle-type tower village on the slope of Tsei Loam Mountain.

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The national system of object management and safety "Territory", which is being implemented on the territory of the Dzheyrah-Assinsky Museum-Reserve, has started work at the international Salon "Integrated Security".

Our employee Ziaudin Gurazhev takes part in the forum.

June 2 is the day of formation of the Dzheyrah-Assinsky Museum-Reserve. It was founded on June 2, 1988 on the basis of the Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR of June 2, 1988, it is recognized as an object of historical and cultural heritage of federal significance.

The Museum-Reserve is a research and educational institution. It is created on the basis of complexes of monuments of history, archaeology, culture and nature of the Dzheyrakh, Salginsky, Assinsky and other gorges and passes connected historically, ethnically, landscapely and representing a special scientific, historical and cultural value in combination with the unique natural complexes surrounding them. Monuments of archeology, history, culture, nature, as well as museum items stored in the reserve are part of the museum fund of the Republic of Ingushetia and the Russian Federation.

The main tasks of the museum-reserve: preservation and restoration of architectural ensembles, religious buildings, burials, natural landscapes as a single museum complex, ensuring the protection of the protected area with all the monuments of archeology, history and architecture on it, as well as ensuring reliable protection of cultural and material values from destruction, theft and other criminal encroachments, fires, acts of vandalism, public disorder, etc.

The Museum-Reserve is one of the largest museums in Russia. It covers an area of 64 thousand hectares, it includes about 5000 thousand archaeological and architectural complexes, which are true masterpieces of the multifaceted culture of the Ingush people (from the Bronze Age to the late Middle Ages). Its length from north to south is more than 50 km, from west to east - more than 70 km. In the west: from the border with the Republic of Georgia on the border with the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania to Table Mountain. In the north: along the Myat-Lam ridge to the Assy River; from the Assy River along the Tsorei-Lom ridge to the border with the Shatoi district of the Chechen Republic. In the east: along the border with the Shatoi district of the Chechen Republic to the border with the Republic of Georgia.

South: on the border with the Republic of Georgia. Architectural complexes, religious buildings and other objects on the balance of this museum, on the basis of the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 1487 of November 30, 1992, are classified as especially valuable objects of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation. In 1995, by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 176 of February 20, 1995, the museum was included in the List of objects of historical and cultural heritage of federal (all-Russian) significance.

These days, within the framework of the work plan for supervision of restoration, conservation and emergency work aimed at preserving historical and architectural objects of mountain Ingushetia, acting director A.A. Sampiev made an inspection trip to the architectural complex "Nizhny Puy".

Preparatory measures are underway at the complex, which will be carried out by specialists of the restoration company "Nasledie" LLC.

The Lower Puy tower complex is located in the southern part of the Targim basin. An elegant battle tower with a stepped-pyramidal roof dominates the village, many petroglyphs have been preserved on the residential towers. In the past, this village occupied an important strategic position, guarding the approaches to the basin from the south and east sides. Among the immigrants from the complex were many famous hereditary highly experienced warriors and skilled hunters.

On June 4, Head of the Committee for State Protection of Cultural Heritage Sites Kodzoev T. U. and employees of the Dzheyrakh-Assinsky Museum-Reserve took part in a photo exhibition of the researcher-archivist Bersnako Gazikov.

The exhibition of unique photographs and archival documents – the result of many years of painstaking work of the famous local historian, researcher-archivist Bersnako Gazikov – was deployed at the site of the Nazran City Library, where materials from the funds of the State Archives of the Russian Federation and the State Russian Museum of St. Petersburg were presented. Several hundred photographs, paintings, newspaper clippings, pictures and sketches of ancient Ingush towers and rural settlements, outstanding people involved in the foundation of the Ingush statehood will play an important role in studying the history of the Ingush people, the life and life of our ancestors.

The researcher was happy to talk about each photo, and those present listened to it with genuine interest.

The participants noted that the presentation is a valuable source for all involved, allowing a new look at the history and culture of the Ingush people.

Akhmedkhan Sampiyev in Moscow at the international exhibition-forum "Space of the Future: North Caucasus Macroregion" presented the development of the tourism potential of the Dzhirakh-Assinsky Museum-Reserve at a high professional level.

Head of the Committee for the State Protection of Cultural Heritage Sites Kodzoev T. U. held a meeting with the head of the Kazyyat Charity Foundation, a representative of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Russia Akkaziev R. Ya, in which Rashid Yahyaevich presented a project for the restoration of the Borg-Kash mausoleum - one of the earliest surviving Muslim monuments in the North Caucasus and the oldest in Ingushetia.

According to the project, it is planned to improve the adjacent territory of the monument, build a fence, install arbors for visitors, plant trees, install lighting, round-the-clock video surveillance and other related work.

Earlier https://t.me/zapovedniking/1589,

Borga-Kash is a monument of history and culture of all-Russian significance and is protected by the state. At different times he was studied by Semyonov L.P., Shcheblykin I.P., Lavrov L.I., etc.

As part of the work plan for visual inspection of the technical condition of cultural heritage sites, specialists of the Dzheyrah-Assinsky Museum-Reserve made an inspection trip to the architectural complex "Garak".

Garak (Garakh) is a large castle-type tower complex on the crest of a steep mountain cliff that breaks from 3 sides, 700 m east of Metskhal, Jairakh district of Ingushetia.

Earlier, on May 7, during the ongoing work on fixing and accounting of all cultural heritage sites of mountain Ingushetia, the specialists of "ASM-Group" together with the employees of the Dzhirakh-Assinsky Museum-Reserve, 1 combat and 3 semi-combat towers, 27 residential towers and 7 crypts, 1 stone spring, as well as 78 steles were identified and recorded in the complex.

During the tour, the staff of the museum-reserve photographed the object, the state of the monuments was examined.

Garak is included in the list of identified objects of cultural heritage of the Republic of Ingushetia and is subject to state protection.

According to the results of the inspection, acts of the technical condition of the OKS will be drawn up and sent to higher organizations.

On July 20, the Head of the Committee for State Protection of Cultural Heritage Sites Kodzoev T.U. and the Acting Director of the Museum-Reserve Sampiev A.A. with the staff of the Jeirakh-Assinsky Museum-Reserve, within the framework of the work plan for a visual inspection of the technical condition of the OKN, made an inspection trip to the Pamet architectural complex (Phamat, Paimat, Phyamat) located on the steep slope of the left bank of the Aramkh River, at the beginning of the Jeirakh Gorge in 0.8 km east N.O.

Previously, this village consisted of 1 battle tower and 5 residential towers with annexes, with which, together with the defensive wall, a rather durable castle complex of the late Middle Ages was formed. Unfortunately, in 1944 the architectural complex was destroyed.

The battle tower in 6 floors, was located in the center of the entire castle, had a square base with hinged machicules - balconies, a stepped - pyramidal roof consisting of 13 slate slabs with a crowning large cone-shaped stone and reached a 28-meter height. According to legend, this tower was built at the beginning of the XVII century. Vakhushti Bagrationi said in the eighteenth century: “There is a large tower surrounded by a wall like a fortress.”

On the northern outskirts of the village formerly stood a large medieval temple "Pamet-Yerdy" (Phamat-Yerdy), destroyed in the middle of the XlX century.

On the hill of the mound there are many crypt burials that require archaeological research.

According to residents of the Dzheyrakh district, when the CIASSSR was here, the famous archaeologist Vinogradov V.B. conducted a study, many of the artifacts found were removed.

Also in preparation for the restoration of the towers found an interesting stone with a petroglyph.

Today, Acting Director of the Jeirakh-Assin Museum - Sampiev Reserve Ahmedkhan Alikhanovich, took part in the ascent to Table Mountain.

The event was organized by the Ministry of Foreign Relations, National Policy, Press and Information of the Republic of Ingushetia.

Within the framework of the work plan-monitoring of the state of cultural heritage objects located in the territory of the Dzheyrakh district of the Republic of Ingushetia, the acting director of the Dzheyrakh-Assin State Historical, Architectural and Natural Museum-Reserve, Ahmedkhan Sampiyev, bypassed the temple-sanctuary "Myat-Sel".

The temple-sanctuary "Mit-Sel" - a rectangular building, is located on the site of Table Mountain at an altitude of about 3000 meters. It's a conventional building. In terms of rectangle; east and west walls of 3.59 m, north and south walls of 6.98 m, height to skate 4.92 m, height of longitudinal walls to the first tiles of 1.77 m. The features of the sanctuary are two doors located in the western east walls; the width of the doors is 0.70 m, the height is 1.80 m. One narrow window above the doors. The longitudinal walls are slightly tilted inward. The roof is gabled, consists of twelve steps. This monument in the past was revered by the local population of the surrounding areas.

On the mountain Myat Loam, in addition to the described, there were two more temples-sanctuaries, built, according to many historians, in the XII-XV centuries. One of the sanctuaries - "Suson-Dyala" ("Protector of noble women") - was located on the northern part, and the other "Myattyr-Dyala" ("Local God") was located on the eastern side of the mountain, to this day both monuments are destroyed. And Myatseli is located on the southern site of the mountain.

During the visual inspection, despite the fact that the monument has been preserved to the full height, its condition can be assessed, most likely, as unsatisfactory: the masonry of the walls is dissected by cracks, the rock base is blurred and weathered, the extension of the masonry stones outwards is traced. Repair and restoration work is required.

On this fact, acts of inspection of the object (with the attachment of photo materials) will be drawn up and sent to the Committee of State Protection of Cultural Heritage Sites of Ingushetia.

The temple-sanctuary "Miat-Sel" is an object of cultural heritage of federal significance, is under the jurisdiction and boundaries of the territory of the Dzheyrah-Assinsk State Historical, Architectural and Natural Museum-Reserve, is subject to state protection.

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On June 25, the Ingush Research Institute of Humanities named after C. E. Akhriev hosted a conference dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Russian ethnographer, researcher and educator Thomas Ivanovich Gorepekin, which was attended by employees of the Dzhirakh-Assinsky Museum-Reserve.

The conference was organized by well-known local historian, researcher-archivist Bersnako Gazikov, which also presented photographs and documentary materials.

F.I. Gorepekin was born on June 7, 1874 in the Essentuki station of the Terek region. The name of Thomas Gorepekin, unfortunately, is not so well known among our people, although he devoted the largest and most fruitful part of his life to the Ingush. Over the years of research work, F. I. Gorepekin has accumulated a huge manuscript archive. He compiled the first primer and the first alphabet, made a direct and reverse dictionary with an encyclopedic explanation of 5000 words. In fact, he is the first scholar-researcher of the peoples of the Caucasus and the first researcher of the history of the Ingush. In 1919, at the Congress of Mountain Peoples, having read the documents, the deputies of the Congress awarded F.I. Gorepekin the honorary title “Nakha – this der”.

The Conference also discussed the Resolution on approval of the Regulations on the Order of the People's Assembly of the Republic of Ingushetia

“Naha siy der”, which was adopted by deputies of the People’s Assembly of the Republic of Ingushetia at the initiative of the Historical and Geographical Society of Ingushetia “Dzurzuki” earlier this year.

This award will be given to people who have dedicated themselves to the Ingush people, its history and culture. And the first Order “Nakha this der” by the deputies of the People’s Assembly of Ingushetia decided to award Gorepekin F.I. posthumously, which will allow to immortalize his name in the history of the Ingush people.

Employees of the Jeirakh-Assinsky Museum-Reserve, within the framework of protection and preservation of historical and cultural monuments, conducted sanitary measures for the demolition of illegal economic buildings on the territory of the Furtog tower complex.

A summer outbuilding located on the security zones of the complex was dismantled. All the garbage was collected and taken to a specially designated place.

We remind you that in order to ensure the safety of the object of cultural heritage in its historical landscape environment, a special land use regime is established that restricts economic activity and prohibits construction, except for the use of special measures aimed at preserving and regenerating the natural environment of the object of cultural heritage (paragraph 2 of Article 34 of the Federal Law No. 73-FZ of 25.06.2002 "On Cultural Heritage Objects (Monuments of History and Culture) of the Peoples of the Russian Federation".

The Furtog Tower Complex (Furtovg-ing.) is located at the beginning of the Dzheyrakhov Gorge, on the spur of Table Mountain, on the right bank of the Armkha River. Now only the base of the battle tower, five dilapidated residential tower buildings of the late Middle Ages and one crypt remain here.

The very name of the village Furtog can be translated as "neither yours nor mine", according to local legend, the ancestors of the names Akhrievs and Lyanovs argued, whose name to call them aul, but the question remained open.

From the village of Furtog came many famous Ingush. They were famous tower builders. Here was born the first Ingush ethnographer, a connoisseur of life and culture of Ingush Chah Akhriev. Particularly famous Furtougu brought one of the leaders of the struggle for Soviet power in the North Caucasus during the Civil War Gapur Akhriev. On May 15, 1981, a memorial museum opened in his home in Furtouga. Here are collected antiques, kitchen utensils, as well as old photos and documents. In Furtouga there is also Furtog waterfall, known for the fact that Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev came there, as the memorial plate tells.