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.

In the House of Nationalities on Mokhovaya Street, an exhibition “Chechnya Towers – Stone Guards” was opened. Architectural heritage through the centuries”.

The author of the presented works is a senior researcher of the GBU “Argun Museum-Reserve – Tamirlan Soltagireev”.

The unique stone architecture of Chechnya is a vivid heritage of ancient material culture.

The exhibition includes a series of twenty-five graphic watercolor sketches of cultural heritage objects located on the territory of the Argun Museum-Reserve in the mountainous part of the Chechen Republic.

In 2015-2024 , works on restoration and adaptation for modern use were carried out at these facilities with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and on behalf of the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov.

The exhibition in the House of Nationalities is held by KGIOP SPb with the support of the Committee on Interethnic Relations and the Implementation of Migration Policy in St. Petersburg and the Russian Association of Restorers.

You can visit the exhibition every Monday and Wednesday at 17:00 until January 31, 2025.

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