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.

In the course of the ongoing work on fixing and accounting of cultural heritage objects of mountain Ingushetia, employees of the Dzheyrakh-Assinsky Museum-Reserve together with specialists of complex architectural and restoration projects of the ASM GROUP carried out work on the architectural complexes "Salgi" and "Khairakh".

Inventory OKN is one of the necessary components of a comprehensive study of monuments. In most cases, it is necessary to state that information about historical and cultural objects is fragmentary. Therefore, it is important that when developing project documentation and program documents on cultural heritage, it is provided for obtaining systematic information about what the object of management is and how to organize its monitoring.

As a result of the events held in Salgi, 108 OKNs were recorded - these are 2 combat, 2 semi-combat towers, 17 residential towers, 10 crypts, 1 sanctuary, 61 funerary steles.

In Khairakh, 1 battle and 13 residential towers, 5 crypts, 48 steles and ruined objects were recorded and recorded. A total of 73 OKNs are in emergency and ruined condition.

The document reflecting the field information collected is the “Act of inspection of the technical condition of the OKN”.

The partners of the project are SAFMAR and Revival charitable foundations.

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