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.

Coordinator of the Agency for Industrialization of Construction, member of the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation in the field of construction, well-known in Europe and Russia solution specialist Ruslan Marzaganov conducts research on samples of ancient mortar at cultural heritage sites of mountain Ingushetia.

Last autumn, together with colleagues of the Dzhirakh-Assinsky Museum-Reserve, about 28 samples were taken on initiative at four sites – Thab-Yerda, Albi-Yerda, Hamkhi and Qest. And at the moment, there will be studies of these samples. According to preliminary data, we can say that we have found an active mineral additive that gives strength to this solution, that is, in one way or another it is involved in different solutions. We are now trying to determine when this additive was introduced into the solution. Either it was introduced during the firing of lime, or it was introduced during the preparation of the mixture.

There are already some interesting observations, and if everything goes well, then we will start full-scale tests in the spring, in the late spring of this year, and will interact with the staff of the museum-reserve. We're going to start picking out objects that we're going to mint and make test stitches and we're going to watch them. This work is very thorough. I hope that I will be able to publish my works, similar to those I did in Germany, before this summer. There will be shown methods already tested in their work. I'm not giving a quick result because we have to study it carefully. It takes us about a year to get the first serious related findings. This work will continue because it is not only an Ingush work, but at least an all-Caucasian one. I have interaction with Georgian specialists, we will try to solve this issue in this interregional order, there are also specialists abroad who are interested in this work, but we must understand that everything that was built in the world up to the XIX century, was based on lime solutions, Marzaganov said.

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