Jariekhi

Jariekhi lies in the northern Caucasus near the meeting of the Armkhi and Terek valleys, not far from the Darial Gorge. The Dzheyrakh people formed a mountain society in the gorge and along the lower Armkhi and upper Terek. The settlement's history is linked to the formation of that Ingush community around the turn of the seventeenth century. In 1745 the Georgian historian Vakhushti described the place in his geography, recording a mountain community whose valleys opened towards the great passage through the Caucasus.