This collection offers readers diverse articles by ethnographers and historians on some issues of history, material and spiritual culture, family, family and social life of the peoples of Dagestan and the North Caucasus. The collection is dedicated to the memory of the Dagestan ethnographer Akhmed Islammagomedovich Islammagomedov (12.04.1930-04.02.2008), designed for ethnographers, culturologists, historians and a wide range of readers interested in the traditions of the Caucasian peoples.