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.

Employees of the museum-reserve during an inspection tour, near the tower complex "Lyalakh" found unaccounted underground crypts, in the amount of three pieces.

The tower complex Lyalakh is a large castle-type settlement in the Chulkhoy (Salgin) gorge. Built in the sixteenth century. From the north-west, the territory of the village is limited by a ravine, along the bottom of which a stream flows, from the south - by the steep bank of the Chulkha River, from the east - by a shallow ravine. To the north is the Rocky Range and Mount Tsei Loam. In the lower row of the village there are three battle towers, above the slope, under their cover, 22 residential towers were built.

Two crypts are relatively well preserved, compared to the third, the size of which is impossible to determine.

Employees carried out measurements of the object, made a photo fixation.

The first crypt has dimensions in the base of 3x3 m, a depth of one and a half meters, the entrance opening is one. The second structure with dimensions in the base of 3.5x3.5 m, depth of 1 m, the roof is missing. The third crypt is ruined.

The works are carried out within the framework of planned works on fixation and accounting of previously unrecorded objects of cultural heritage.

The identified objects will be included in the list of identified objects of cultural heritage of the republic and put into scientific circulation, and they will be of interest to all who are fond of the history of the region.

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