The collection contains materials from the conference "Caucasian War: Events, Facts, Lessons," held at the KBIGI on October 15-19, 2014 in Nalchik. New interpretations of the history of the Caucasian War (1763-1864) are presented, which acts as an event that has had a significant impact on the ethnodemographic, socio-political, economic and cultural development of the region. The studies included in the collection clarify and supplement the well-established ideas about the events under consideration, and also offer new plots for the subsequent study of the most complex and controversial stage of the integration of the peoples of the North Caucasus into the socio-political space of the Russian Empire.