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 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.

In the Integrated Research Institute named after H.I. Ibragimov of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a round table was held, in which at the invitation of the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the Chechen Republic, the director of the GBU "Argun Museum-Reserve" S-A. Gorchkhanov took part. The report “Regulations of Formation of Historical and Cultural Monuments of Tower Type” was made by the Director of the KNII RAS, Doctor of Sciences, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Academician of the MANEB Dena Karim-Sultanovich Batayev. The attendees were acquainted with the technologies and materials for the repair, restoration and restoration of cultural heritage objects developed in the KNII named after Kh.I. Ibragimov RAS.

Methodical and methodological schemes of organization of works, organizational and technological methods of production of repair and restoration works and regularities of forming of monuments of history and culture of tower type were given.

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