# Селение Ний

- By: Altushkin
- Date: Taken on 20 June 2019, 16:55:48
- Classification: Photograph
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B9.jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/thumb/c/c1/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B9.jpg/1920px-%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B9.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Ancient Niy settlement in Ingushetia, Russia. This kind of architecture is known as Vainakh tower architecture; towers of this kind were used for military purposes and as dwellings, and they are common in Ingushetia and Chechnya.