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.

On February 14-21, 2025, the first ever Chechen Culture Week was held in the Republic of Karelia on the initiative of the PERLAMUTER art space.

The event included lectures by Ramzan Bakanayev, an official lecturer of the Russian Society of Knowledge and a senior researcher at the Argun Museum-Reserve, and Ksenia Dianova, an official lecturer of the Russian Society of Knowledge and a candidate of historical sciences.

The high level of organization and significant contribution to the development of interethnic relations, as well as the preservation of the historical, cultural and social heritage of the peoples of the Chechen Republic and the Republic of Karelia were marked with a letter of thanks from the Ministry of the Chechen Republic for National Policy, External Relations, Press and Information.

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