Dzheyrakh-Assa Museum-Reserve
Dzheyrakh-Assa Museum-Reserve is a Ingush cultural and historical landscape in Ingushetia, consisting of a number of reserves and auls. In the territory of 64 thousand hectares there are about five hundred stone architectural complexes: Ingush towers and funerary crypts, Pagan and Christian shrines and temples. The first towers date back to the II millennium BC.
There are about 2,000 inhabitants in Dzheyrakhsky district of Ingushetia.
Noteworthy places of Assa-Dzheyrakh:
- Erzi is a state nature reserve, includes one of the largest tower complexes of Ingushetia.
- Tower complex Vovnushki is a late medieval complex of defensive Ingush towers. In 2008 Vovnushki became the finalist of the project Seven Wonders of Russia.
- Tower complex Targim is an aul in Dzheyrakhsky district of Ingushetia, is located in the Targim basin, on the right bank of the river Assa.
- Tkhaba-Yerdy is an early medieval Christian temple in Dzheyrakhsky district of Ingushetia, between the aul of Khairah and Pui of Assin gorge, not far from the border with Georgia.
- Alby-Yerdy are the ruins of an early medieval temple in Ingushetia, located on the left bank of the Assa River.
- Tower complex Egikal is an aul in the Dzheyrakhsky district of Ingushetia. On its territory, there are many historical objects, including ancient burial grounds. One of the military towers with a height of 27 meters was preserved in almost perfect condition.