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North Caucasus
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- Șamil Basayev
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Adorable. kindergarten in the village of Chokh Dagestan, 1962
Night view of Elbrus. photo by @vazovskyy
Ilya Nikolaevich Zankovsky “Encampment”
Carpet market. Derbent. 1981
Derbent is one of the oldest cities of the world. It is believed to be 5, 000 years old. Carpets are hanging on wall of Derbent Fortress. The Fortifications of Derbent (also transcribed as Darband) are one of the fortified defense lines built by the Persian Sasanian Empire to protect the eastern passage of the Caucasus Mountains (the “Caspian Gates”) against the attacks of the nomadic peoples of the Pontic–Caspian steppe.
The Dargavs necropolis. Ossetia
Caucasians tiptoe around love
Dagestan by Thomas Dvorak. 1977
Caucasus and Caucasians on the covers of the main Soviet magazine Ogonyok. Father and son Zalikhanovs. 1968 year.
Chokka is famous for climbing Elbrus 209 times, and the last time climbed Elbrus in 1968 on the day of his 110th anniversary. Hussein did not disappoint his father - he became a legendary climber as well.
The Nogais are a Turkic-speaking people mainly living in the Stavropol Territory, Dagestan, as well as in Karachay-Cherkessia, in Chechnya.
In the Nogai family, they tried to cultivate gentleness and modesty in the girls, in the boys - courage, agility, and strength. Both were passed on knowledge of the norms of behavior in the family and society.
The word “Namys” is the moral credo of the Nogais. This concept is very capacious, it contains moral principles and the level of the people. Its essence is humanity, conscientiousness, the ability to always and everywhere help a neighbor or a friend. Namys is expressed in respect for elders, in hospitality, in a respectful attitude towards a woman.
Nogais gave great importance to the birth of a child. Choosing the name played an important role. This event took place necessarily in the house of the father of the newborn. The name was associated with the future of the child. Therefore, their choice was taken very seriously. The old and wise people would gather in the house, and the first word was given to the most respected of them. If his proposal was agreed, the name was given immediately.
Avar people by Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) No, color film did not exist in 1909, but chemist-turned-photojournalist had pioneered a revolutionary method to document pre-Revolution Russian Empire and its multicultural surroundings, using color-filtered plates of glass.
Carpet weavers: Tabassaran, Armenian, Azerbaijani
Excerpt from the movie “Legends of Ingushetia”
