Jeirach-Assin Reserve
Jeirach-Assin Reserve

The historical, architectural and natural museum-reserve "Jeyrakh-Assinsky" is located within the boundaries of the Dzheyrakh 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. Important importance in the reserve is given to work on creating conditions for the development of organized tourism, its educational and service component.

Today, October 3, in the Ingush State Museum of Local History named after Tugan Malsagov, representatives of the Institute of Archaeology of the Caucasus brought a second batch of artifacts - more than 800 archaeological objects discovered during the reconstruction of the federal highway "Caucasus" in the Gamurzievsky administrative district in 2018, and which were still stored in them.

The museum was given archaeological excavations of ancient times in the form of household items, ceramics, tools, jewelry, etc., representing the North Caucasian culture, as well as artifacts related to the Koban culture and the Alan era.

The event was attended by heads and employees of competent organizations, researcher-archivist Bersnako Gazikov, archaeologist Umalat Gadiev, historian-localist Ruslan Kurkiev and others.

Recall that in 2018, during the excavations, more than 4,000 antiquities of great scientific interest were discovered, the first batch of which, in the amount of 200 items, was transferred at the end of August of this year, and work on the return of the remaining part continues, thanks to the mutual agreement of the parties on the return of all finds to their historical homeland.

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