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 Vedensky Reserve and covering the Itum-Kalin and Sharoy districts in whole, as well as partially Achkhoy-Martan, Veden and Shatoi 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.

Senior Researcher of the Department of Archaeology and Architecture of the Argun Museum-Reserve Ramzan Bakanaev conducted a sightseeing tour of the Shikaroi Historical and Architectural Complex.

The path to the historical and architectural complex of Shikaroy passed through the picturesque Argun Gorge.

As the participants of the trip noted, this complex is one of the most interesting objects of tower architecture for both tourists and locals, and it should be visited.

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