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.

On the tower complexes "Hamhi", "Tori", "Upper and Lower Barhane" field work was carried out on the accounting of OKN.

In the course of the work on fixation and accounting of objects of cultural heritage of mountain Ingushetia, the staff of the Jeirakh-Assinsky Museum-Reserve together with specialists of complex architectural and restoration projects of the ASM GROUP carried out work on the architectural complexes "Khamkhi", "Tori", "Upper Barkhan", "Lower Barkhan".

As a result of the work, 78 OKNs were recorded in Lower Barkhan, 84 OKNs in Upper Barkhan, these are funerary steles, residential and semi-combat towers, crypts, barrier walls, sanctuaries and a cyclopean building. In the tower complex "Tori" identified 30 OKN, in "Hamhi", according to preliminary data, 103 objects. Among the objects of the complex "Hamhi": a ruined mausoleum, a preserved sanctuary, combat, semi-combat and residential towers, above-ground, underground and semi-underground crypts, etc.

Technical condition of objects can be divided into the following groups:

- highly ruined;

- ruined buildings with the preservation of the base and the possibility of determining the dimensions and initial volumes;

Destroyed and extremely emergency buildings (subject to collapse by half of the total volume);

- partially destroyed buildings;

- buildings in satisfactory condition.

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

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