Jeyrakh-Assa museum-reserve


Dzheyrakh-Assa Museum-Reserve is a Russian 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 : funerary crypts, Pagan and Christian shrines and temples, and Vainakh towers. The first towers date back to the 20 century BC.
There are about 2,000 inhabitants in Dzheyrakhsky district of Ingushetia.
Noteworthy places of Assa-Jeyrakh:
Since 1996 Dzheyrakh-Assa Museum-Reserve has been a candidate for the list of World Heritage UNESCO