Persian ruler Nadir-Shakh intended to conquer mountainous Dagestan and came here at the head of a 30,000-strong army. He lost over 20,000 warriors killed near Megeb and Obokh on the approaches to Chokh and Bukhtib. His famous Guards were dispersed, too. Nadir-Shakh disgracefully fled to Derbent (a city on the Caspian Sea founded in 438) with the remainder of his defeated army. Thousands of killed and wounded, weapons, armour, the treasury, the Shakh's crown and his harem were left on the battlefield.
The Vatan memorial complex consists of a stone building stylized as a 16-metre-high Medieval Dagestani tower, an operating mosque with a minaret, an arch gate, staircases, and observation grounds. It is to be gifted to the Dagestani Amalgamated Museum and will be used as its subsidiary.
The author of the complex - architect Kurbanmagomed Kerimov - won the first prize, a first-degree diploma and a medal in the Building nomination in the first All-Russia review-competition Stone in Architecture of the 21st Century: Traditions and Innovation held in Moscow within the 12th international festival Architecture-2004.
