The staff of the Argun Museum-Reserve made an info. Аргунский заповедник

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.

The staff of the Argun Museum-Reserve made an informative excursion to the vicinity of the Mindar-Yukhkhe location in Galanchozh.

The purpose of the field trip was to get a deeper insight into a unique site of history and culture of the Chechen Republic.

The group of specialists together with the group carefully inspected the territory of the cultural monument.

The excursion was not just a walk around the historical site, but a real immersion into the past. The museum staff answered the questions of those interested and told them local legends, as the preservation and popularization of cultural heritage is an important mission of the State Budgetary Institution “Argun Museum-Reserve”.