On June 25, the Ingush Research Institute of Humanities named after C. E. Akhriev hosted a conference dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Russian ethnographer, researcher and educator Thomas Ivanovich Gorepekin, which was attended by employees of the Dzhirakh-Assinsky Museum-Reserve.

The conference was organized by well-known local historian, researcher-archivist Bersnako Gazikov, which also presented photographs and documentary materials.

F.I. Gorepekin was born on June 7, 1874 in the Essentuki station of the Terek region. The name of Thomas Gorepekin, unfortunately, is not so well known among our people, although he devoted the largest and most fruitful part of his life to the Ingush. Over the years of research work, F. I. Gorepekin has accumulated a huge manuscript archive. He compiled the first primer and the first alphabet, made a direct and reverse dictionary with an encyclopedic explanation of 5000 words. In fact, he is the first scholar-researcher of the peoples of the Caucasus and the first researcher of the history of the Ingush. In 1919, at the Congress of Mountain Peoples, having read the documents, the deputies of the Congress awarded F.I. Gorepekin the honorary title “Nakha – this der”.

The Conference also discussed the Resolution on approval of the Regulations on the Order of the People's Assembly of the Republic of Ingushetia

“Naha siy der”, which was adopted by deputies of the People’s Assembly of the Republic of Ingushetia at the initiative of the Historical and Geographical Society of Ingushetia “Dzurzuki” earlier this year.

This award will be given to people who have dedicated themselves to the Ingush people, its history and culture. And the first Order “Nakha this der” by the deputies of the People’s Assembly of Ingushetia decided to award Gorepekin F.I. posthumously, which will allow to immortalize his name in the history of the Ingush people.