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.

I am happy to inform you about the success of the project “Development of the Dzhirakh-Assin State Historical, Architectural and Natural Museum-Reserve” from the Republic of Ingushetia. He received more than 65 thousand votes and was recognized as the best in the field of tourism at the competition within the framework of the Days of Regional Development "Space of the Future" at the Exhibition "Russia".

This is not surprising, because the Dzhirakh-Assinsky Museum-Reserve occupies as much as 65 thousand hectares in the picturesque mountainous Dzhirakh district of our beautiful Ingushetia. There are about 500 complexes of stone architecture, including ancient temples, sanctuaries, funerary structures.

It is a real treasure that gives an idea of the history and culture of our ancestors: burial crypts, pagan, Christian sanctuaries, temples and tower complexes, some of which date back to the middle of the second millennium BC.

The most significant are the temples of Taba-Yerda and Albi-Yerda, the castle complex of Vovnushki, the tower complexes of Hamha, Targim, Egikal. Egikal is one of the largest medieval tower complexes in Ingushetia.

I congratulate the staff of the Natural Museum-Reserve and every resident of Ingushetia with this result!

Thank you to everyone who voted for our project, for your contribution to the preservation and popularization of the Ingush cultural heritage! - Head of the Republic of Ingushetia Mahmud-Ali Kalimatov.

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