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Erzy
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23.05.2024

Erzi Tower Complex is the main attraction of the valley of the Armkha River, one of the largest castle-type tower complexes in the region at the tip of the mountain range. Located in Jairach district.

The Erzi tower complex includes 8 combat, 2 semi-combat, 47 residential towers with various annexes, several different sanctuaries and burial grounds and a long stone defensive wall with wide gates of the late Middle Ages. Most of the battle towers were restored in 2015. Most of them are five-storey (only one of them is six floors). On the first floors of these towers, you can observe large stone cone-shaped "bags" - compartments (from 1 to 6) for storing agricultural supplies and keeping prisoners, and in the walls of the remaining floors (except the upper ones) - numerous narrow loopholes for firefighting, defensive niches, rare small vaulted window openings. The entrance vaulted opening at each tower is located at the level of the 2nd floor. Radiocarbon dating of one of them showed 1683-1723 years of construction.

Residential towers of Erzi complex were 2-4-storey. Some of them had loggia. On their walls preserved petroglyphs and tamga-shaped signs: crosses, spirals, circles, tridents, etc. Near the towers you can see several crypt burial grounds XIII-XVIII centuries. Of particular interest is the core-shaped mausoleum of the XVIII century Yand-Kash (Grave of Yand), which was built over the grave of the famous local architect named Yand, the ancestor of the Yandiev family. There are several legends and legends about Yand. In 2019, the mausoleum was restored. Above the slope you can see the ruins of a small temple-sanctuary of Erdzeli, erected by Yand in the second half of the XVIII century. In the hiding places of the sanctuary, archaeologists discovered three large iron crosses.

The largest relic of Erdzeli is a unique cast bronze eagle statuette made in the VIII century in Iraq. The figure height of 38 cm in the 1930s was taken by the Caucasian scholar Nikolai Yakovlev to St. Petersburg, now it is exhibited in the State Hermitage. An exact copy of the statuette is kept in the State Museum of the Republic of Ingushetia in Nazran.

East of Erzi, near the road to the village of Kerbite are two pillar-shaped sanctuaries. According to legends, the sanctuaries were solemnly erected in the XVIII century.

Erzi Tower Complex is part of the Dzhirakh-Assin State Historical, Architectural and Natural Museum-Reserve and is an identified object of cultural heritage protected by the state.

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Jeyrakh-Assin Reserve

Jeyrakh-Assin Reserve

The Jeyrakh-Assin historical, architectural and natural museum-reserve is located within the boundaries of the Jeyrakh district of the Republic of Ingushetia on the northern slopes of the foothills of the Central part of the Greater Caucasus Range. The reserve was established on June 2, 1988. The area of the reserve is slightly more than 627 square kilometers. The activity of the reserve is aimed at ensuring the preservation, restoration and study of territorial complexes of cultural and natural heritage, material and spiritual values in their traditional historical (cultural and natural) environment. On the territory of the museum-reserve there are 122 ancient architectural complexes, including more than 2,670 objects of cultural significance, including defensive and residential towers, burial crypts, Christian and pagan sanctuaries and temples. The oldest buildings of the megalithic type belong to the middle of the second millennium BC. Every year, significant scientific discoveries are made on the territory of the reserve, new objects are identified, archaeological expeditions are constantly working, scientists from all over the world come. Since 1996, the reserve has been a candidate for inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage List. Significant value in the reserve is given to work on creating conditions for the development of organized tourism, its educational and service component.

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