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 Jeirakh-Assinsky Museum-Reserve, within the framework of protection and preservation of historical and cultural monuments, conducted sanitary measures for the demolition of illegal economic buildings on the territory of the Furtog tower complex.

A summer outbuilding located on the security zones of the complex was dismantled. All the garbage was collected and taken to a specially designated place.

We remind you that in order to ensure the safety of the object of cultural heritage in its historical landscape environment, a special land use regime is established that restricts economic activity and prohibits construction, except for the use of special measures aimed at preserving and regenerating the natural environment of the object of cultural heritage (paragraph 2 of Article 34 of the Federal Law No. 73-FZ of 25.06.2002 "On Cultural Heritage Objects (Monuments of History and Culture) of the Peoples of the Russian Federation".

The Furtog Tower Complex (Furtovg-ing.) is located at the beginning of the Dzheyrakhov Gorge, on the spur of Table Mountain, on the right bank of the Armkha River. Now only the base of the battle tower, five dilapidated residential tower buildings of the late Middle Ages and one crypt remain here.

The very name of the village Furtog can be translated as "neither yours nor mine", according to local legend, the ancestors of the names Akhrievs and Lyanovs argued, whose name to call them aul, but the question remained open.

From the village of Furtog came many famous Ingush. They were famous tower builders. Here was born the first Ingush ethnographer, a connoisseur of life and culture of Ingush Chah Akhriev. Particularly famous Furtougu brought one of the leaders of the struggle for Soviet power in the North Caucasus during the Civil War Gapur Akhriev. On May 15, 1981, a memorial museum opened in his home in Furtouga. Here are collected antiques, kitchen utensils, as well as old photos and documents. In Furtouga there is also Furtog waterfall, known for the fact that Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev came there, as the memorial plate tells.

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