The need for a consolidated work on the ethnography of the Caucasus is long overdue. Previous attempts by individual authors to describe the peoples of the entire Caucasus were distinguished by inevitable fragmentation, since one researcher cannot cover the diverse culture and life of numerous Caucasian peoples. In addition, most of the consolidated works on the ethnography of the Caucasus were written before the revolution and suffer from the tendentiousness inherent in the bourgeois-noble worldview. The authors of the proposed work sought to show the peculiarities of the life and culture of the peoples of the Caucasus that have developed over the centuries and their current state...