Committee of Cultural Heritage of the Republic of Ingushetia
Committee of Cultural Heritage of the Republic of Ingushetia

The Committee for State Protection of Cultural Heritage Sites of the Republic of Ingushetia is an executive body exercising the transferred powers of the Russian Federation in the field of preservation, use, popularization and state protection of cultural heritage objects in the territory of the Republic of Ingushetia. Formed by the Decree of the Head of the Republic of Ingushetia of 14/03/2023 No. 31 “On improving the structure of executive bodies of state power of the Republic of Ingushetia”. Tasks of the Committee: protection and preservation of valuable objects of cultural heritage in the territory of the republic; implementation of federal, regional state control (supervision) in the field of protection of cultural heritage objects; organization of work on identification and state registration of objects with signs of cultural heritage; development and implementation of programs of the Republic of Ingushetia in the field of preservation, use, popularization and state protection of cultural heritage objects; organization of work to establish the historical and cultural value of an object with signs of a cultural heritage object, including with the involvement of specialists in the field of protection of cultural heritage objects; issuance of a task and permit, coordination of project documentation for the preservation of the object of cultural heritage and participation in the acceptance of works for the preservation of the object of cultural heritage.

If you read all the open sources on the North Caucasus, the most information is available on the City of the Dead “Tsoi-Pede” in Chechnya, the City of the Dead “Fardyk-Keshen” in Kabardino-Balkaria, and, of course, the City of the Dead ‘Dargavs’ in North Ossetia, as “the largest complex of its kind in the North Caucasus,” with 95 crypts.

Why is there virtually no mention of the “Shoan City of the Dead,” located in a remote mountainous part of Ingushetia and actually the largest crypt complex in the North Caucasus?

The ACM Group team has completed its work on studying and identifying crypts in the “Shoan City of the Dead.” For some reason, the existing Register of Cultural Heritage Sites lists only 76 crypts. ACM Group specialists have identified 175 more historical monuments in the Shoan City of the Dead that have the characteristics of cultural heritage sites, including 2 sanctuaries, 169 crypts, and 4 steles.

“ACM Group” is sending 175 applications to the Committee for the Protection of Cultural Heritage Sites in Ingushetia to include the identified sites in the Register of Newly Identified Cultural Heritage Sites in Ingushetia. We hope that within 90 working days, another 175 objects will legally become identified cultural heritage objects of the Russian Federation and take their rightful place among other unique monuments of the country. “ACM Group” is ready to provide all additional assistance necessary to legally protect the unique crypts of the “Shokansky City of the Dead.”

The work is being carried out with the full support of the SAFMAR Charitable Foundation.

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