Argun Reserve
Argun Reserve

The Argun State Historical-Architectural and Natural Museum-Reserve is a reserve located in the southern part of the Chechen Republic on the territory of the Vedeno Reserve and covering the Itum-Kali and Sharoy districts in whole, as well as partially Achkhoy-Martan, Vedeno and Shatoy districts. It was established on June 2, 1988 by the resolution of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR. The area is 233,800 hectares. We can safely say that the Argun Reserve is an open-air museum. It includes historical and natural monuments of the Argun Gorge. Of the natural monuments on the territory of the Argun Museum-Reserve, the most remarkable is the Sheki-Hyekh cave with sulfur springs, from which a hydrogen sulfide river flows. Of the cultural and historical sites, there are about 150 tower complexes of the early and late Middle Ages, religious buildings, military and residential towers, early Muslim burials, cyclopean structures and other historical monuments. Many objects of the museum-reserve are in ruined condition.

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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