Students of the Workers' Faculty (Rabfak) in the village of Shatoy. Chechen Autonomous Oblast, 1930.
A Workers' Faculty (Rabfak) was a specialized educational institution in the USSR that existed from 1919 until the early 1940s. These institutions were established to provide accelerated training for workers and peasants seeking admission to higher education institutions.
Their main goal was to "proletarianize" Soviet universities and create a new Soviet intelligentsia.
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Askerbi Shortanov (1916-1985), Kabardian writer, playwright, theatre director, and WWII veteran.
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Cossacks from the stanitsa of Troitskaya, Terek Cossack Host, 1916.
Troitskaya (Ebarg-yurt) is now a stanitsa in the Sunzhensky District of Ingushetia.
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A Circassian in Ottoman service: Mehmet-agha, sergeant of the Second Imperial Battalion. Constantinople (Istanbul), 1870s.
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A group of Ingiloy people. The village of Kakhi (now Gakh, Azerbaijan). Zakatal Okrug, Tiflis Governorate, 1890s.
Photo: Dmitry Ermakov (1845-1916)
The Ingiloy are an ethnographic group of Georgians historically inhabiting the Saingilo region in northwestern Azerbaijan.
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A Balkar family in front of their home. Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkarian Autonomous Oblast, 1932.
Photo: Walter Saalfeld
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Konai Gelgaev, a Chechen from the village of Dishni-Vedeno. Terek Oblast, 1913.
Gelgaev served in the forces of the Dagestani religious leader Uzun-Haji, who proclaimed the establishment of the North Caucasian Caliphate during the Russian Civil War.
Konai Gelgaev was mortally wounded in a battle against the forces of General Anton Denikin near the village of Shali in Chechnya in 1919 and died several days later.
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At the Radio Goods store. Ordzhonikidze (now Vladikavkaz), North Ossetian ASSR, 1960s.
Photo: S. Fedoseev
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