Jeyrakh-Assa museum-reserve
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Dzheyrakh-Assa Museum-Reserve (Russian: Джейрахско-Ассинский музей-заповедник) 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.
Erzi (Боевые башни Эрзи) is a state nature reserve, includes one of the largest tower complexes of Ingushetia.
Tower complex Vovnushki (Башенный комплекс Вовнушки) 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 (Башенный комплекс Таргим) is an aul in Dzheyrakhsky district of Ingushetia, is located in the Targim basin, on the right bank of the river Assa.
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