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.

300 m west of the guard battle tower "Magoy-Dzhel", located under the Tsei-Loam mountain pass - between two blocks of rocks, there is, unaccounted for in the list of identified OKN, interesting in the structure, a stone sheepdog-jel, which served as a pen for small-horned cattle. The monument is half destroyed.

Usually such shepherds (Magoi-Jel, Dzaurkyongi-Jel) were located on the territory of pasture lands and, as a rule, they were attached to large boulders, which served as a roof or wall. “Magoy-jel” in translation means “Mag1o sheepdog”, here, according to ethnographic data, the famous Mago, from which many Ingush names go, contained and herded his flock of sheep.

Another, skillfully built near a huge boulder, the Dzaurkyongi-Jel shelter tower is located 2 km north of the village of Upper Guli.

After the relevant works, the monument will add to the list of identified objects of cultural heritage of the republic.

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