Magas impressed me with its enclosed bus stop featuring working air conditioning, a digital library, and a clean mat on the bench. And the poster at the city entrance calling on people to surrender illegally stored weapons in exchange for immunity from prosecution is quite a colorful sight. But there's honestly not much to do here: the city is small (~20,000 people) and young (~20 years old). There's nothing historical.

Now, the name itself hints at a competition among Caucasian peoples over their connection to the ancient Alans. While the Ossetians, without much modesty, simply added "Alania" to the name of their republic, the Ingush, quick on their feet, named their new capital after the main city of ancient Alania.