Jeirach-Assin Reserve
Jeirach-Assin Reserve

The historical, architectural and natural museum-reserve "Jeyrakh-Assinsky" is located within the boundaries of the Dzheyrakh 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. Important importance in the reserve is given to work on creating conditions for the development of organized tourism, its educational and service component.

During the inspection trip to the village of Furtog, on the territory of the complex, the staff of the Jeirakh-Assinsky Museum-Reserve discovered two previously unrecorded river mills and four underground crypts.

The river mills are located 250-300 m west of the complex, the state is ruined - only fragments of the walls have been preserved. Also, according to local residents, 100 meters from the waterfall until 2002 was another operating mill, which due to severe flooding in the summer of the same year was washed away by heavy rains.

And the discovered underground crypts, also located on the territory of the complex, which contained bone remains, were covered with earth by local residents for religious reasons.

In order to ensure the integrity and safety of these objects, applications will be submitted to higher organizations on their inclusion in the list of identified objects of cultural heritage of the republic.

The attractions of the complex are architectural monuments, Furtog waterfall, house-museum with the history of Furtog named after Gapur Akhriev.

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