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I want to tell you something about Ingushetia. I was born there and I probably know everything about my Republic.

Ingushetia is an incredibly beautiful place, situated in the central part of the northern foothills of the Major Caucasus mountain Ridge.

The northern and western parts of the Republic of Ingushetia share their border with the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania and the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, the Eastern part neighbors the Chechen Republic, the southern part of the Major Caucasus mountain Ridge borders on Georgia.

The mountain, piedmont and the lowland landscape zones of Ingushetia constitute an amazing variety of natural and weather conditions that range from continental to high-mountain climate. It is known that the Central Caucasus mountains are comprised of five parallel mountain chains with the well-known gaps between them: the Vodorazdelniy Bokovoy, Skalistiy, Pastbishniy and Lesistiy Ridges. Ingushetia is situated in such a way that its administrative territory embraces all these mountain chains. It is for this reason that Ingushetia is sometimes called the "Country of Mountains".

Ingushetia is a land that has been blessed not only with rich folklore but also centuries of history. Its nature is beautiful in a unique way. Since the integrity of a people can be observed in three dimensions: 1 - the Cosmos of Nature, which surrounds the people, or the natural habitat of people; 2 - the people's soul that is formed under the influence of the Cosmos (Nature) that it inhabits; 3 - the way of thinking, let us start with the most significant: the description of nature.

It would be wrong to deny the mark this environment has left both on the way of life and the character of the people just as much as it would be wrong to deny that "the beauty of nature... helps to discover the beauty of the human being and the beauty of the human soul." (Murat Zyazikov, former President of Ingushetia)