Argun Reserve
Argun Reserve

The Chechen State Historical, Architectural, and Natural Museum-Reserve is a nature reserve located in the southern part of the Chechen Republic within the Vedeno Nature Reserve, encompassing the entire Itum-Kali and Sharoi districts and parts of the Achkhoy-Martan, Vedeno, and Shatoi districts. It was established on June 2, 1988, by decree of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR. Its area is 233,800 hectares. It's safe to say that the Chechen Nature Reserve is an open-air museum. It encompasses the historical and natural monuments of the Argun Gorge. Among the natural monuments within the Chechen Museum-Reserve, the most notable is the Sheki-Khyekh Cave, home to sulfur springs and a hydrogen sulfide river. The cultural and historical sites include approximately 150 tower complexes from the early and late Middle Ages, religious buildings, military and residential towers, early Muslim burial sites, cyclopean structures, and other historical monuments. Many of the museum-reserve's buildings are in ruins.

The Argun Museum-Reserve and the PERLAMUTER art residence with the support of the National Library of the Chechen Republic present:

Summing up the first Week of Chechen Culture in Karelia, we invite you to open-conversation lectures to be held on April 11 at 14.00 at the National Library of the Chechen Republic.

1) “Cultural Code: the Experience of Comparing Karelia and Chechnya”

In this lecture we will try to understand how dialog of cultures can be useful in the modern world. How do traditions become a language of mutual understanding and differences become a basis for rapprochement? Why is it so important to turn to the traditions and values of another culture, completely different from our own, when studying our own cultural code?

Lecturer: Ksenia Dianova, PhD in History, official lecturer of the Russian Society “Znanie”, TOP-100 best lecturers of Russia according to the results of the fourth season of the contest "Znanie. Lecturer“

2) ”The Cultural Code of Chechnya on the Example of Architecture"

A tower is not just a defensive structure, but a symbol of rootedness, honor, memory and structuring of space. This story will be a visual and semantic bridge between tangible and intangible culture, between architecture and worldview.

Lecturer: Ramzan Bakanaev, Senior Researcher of the Argun Museum-Reserve, official lecturer of the Russian Society “Znanie”

The event will be an attempt not only to analyze but also to feel culture - through forms, meanings, images and intonations.

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