G.S. Akhriev Memorial House-Museum

About museum

On May 15, 1981, in the high-mountain village of Furtooug, with the help of Tugan Khadjimokhovich Malsagov and Musa Aushev, the memorial house-museum dedicated to the famous Ingush revolutionary and Civil War hero Gapur Saidovich Akhriev was opened. The museum tells of Gapur Saidovich’s childhood and youth, the beginning of his revolutionary activity and his formation as a revolutionary, as well as about the revolution, the counterrevolution and the life of the Ingush at the beginning of the 20th century.

On display for visitors are items from the Akhriev family hearth: furniture, miraculously preserved antique istinggi — handmade rugs, a hearth, a three-legged low table, kitchen utensils, an antique chest of drawers, a samovar, a heavy iron, copper pitchers, and a topchan for resting.

The exhibition is complemented by photographs and documentary materials about natives of the village of Furtooug who brought renown to their homeland. Among them are the tower builder Dugo Akhriev; educator and founder of archival work in Ingushetia Assadula Akhriev; the first Ingush scholar and ethnographer Chakh Akhriev; lawyer and revolutionary Mukhtar Akhriev; the first professional artist among the Ingush, Hadji-Bekir Akhriev; member of the Terek Council of People’s Commissars Gapur Akhriev; the first director of the Ingush Research Institute Osman Akhriev; the first pilot among the peoples of the North Caucasus, Rashidbek Akhriev; the first professional physician, Professor Hadji Akhriev; and others.