It is the main structure of the entire memorial complex, which displays the most significant dates, tragic and solemn events in the history of the Ingush people.

[1] The memorial and museum were opened on February 23, 1997, on the commemoration of the Deportation of Chechens and Ingush to Kazakhstan and Central Asia.

This memorial complex also contains a museum which has exhibitions illustrating the deportation as well as markers for prominent Ingush and local police forces who died in the line of service, photographic documents, materials, paintings, household items, etc., testifying to the Stalinist Deportations, as well as the ethnic cleansing of the Ingush during the East Prigorodny conflict.

After the Ingush returned, as it was no longer possible to tell from what graves the stones were taken, they found and gathered up many of these headstones and created both formal and informal memorials to the Deportation.

The “Nine Towers” Memorial is an architectural monument included in the register of the Academy of Arts of the Russian Federation and since 2002 in the catalog “Monument and memorial signs to victims of repression on the territory of the former USSR” of the Sakharov Center named after human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei Sakharov.