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Shikaro Tower Complex
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05.02.2024

Shikaroy historical and architectural complex: XIV - XVI centuries. It is located in the village of Shikaroy, located on a high cape formed by small rivers flowing into Sharo-Argun on the right side. Shikaroy residential towers were built as dwellings for individual families and surnames. In addition to residential, there were Shikaroy battle and semi-combat towers.

In the Middle Ages, the village of Shikaroy was divided into two parts: the upper ("Baidiye") and the lower, more ancient ("Phyediye"). In the village there are more than twenty residential buildings of different eras in different conditions. Among the dilapidated towers there are underground stone buildings with stone vaulted ceilings, as well as a rural mosque, also dilapidated.

Shikaroy tower buildings are the least explored objects of cultural heritage in the Chechen Republic.

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Argun Reserve

Argun Reserve

The Argun State Historical-Architectural and Natural Museum-Reserve is a reserve located in the southern part of the Chechen Republic on the territory of the Vedeno Reserve and covering the Itum-Kali and Sharoy districts in whole, as well as partially Achkhoy-Martan, Vedeno and Shatoy districts. It was established on June 2, 1988 by the resolution of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR. The area is 233,800 hectares. We can safely say that the Argun Reserve is an open-air museum. It includes historical and natural monuments of the Argun Gorge. Of the natural monuments on the territory of the Argun Museum-Reserve, the most remarkable is the Sheki-Hyekh cave with sulfur springs, from which a hydrogen sulfide river flows. Of the cultural and historical sites, there are about 150 tower complexes of the early and late Middle Ages, religious buildings, military and residential towers, early Muslim burials, cyclopean structures and other historical monuments. Many objects of the museum-reserve are in ruined condition.

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