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Dondi-Yurt open air museum of Urus-Martan, Chechnya, is a private museum built by Adam Satuyev, ex-Chechen athlete.
Mister Satuyev, who had been collecting Chechen artifacts for years, decided to exhibit his collection in an open-air museum. Satuyev himself reenacted typical Chechen dwelling (residential) towers on his property in which he exposed his collection. The museum visit is free of charge.
Arsen Kurbanov is a Dagestani artist born in 1969, in Makhachkala, Dagestan’s capital city.
He graduated from Dzhemal Art College, Makhachkala and I.E. Repin Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
His specialization is portrait painting in oil.
Kahib was built between the 8th and 10th centuries by the Avars. It is located in Shamilsky district of central Dagestan.
The word ” Kahib ” is derived from the Georgian word ” Kahi “, which means scarce highland.
The old and current village are divided by a river valley, which also made the old village hard to access.
Its walls, like many structures of the Caucasus mountains, are adorned with pagan symbolism and solar signs, part of their religion before the conversion to Islam.
Symbols of the pre-muslim Pagan religion
Kahib in 1923
North Caucasus Land 