From the Caucasian Heritage of G.F. Malyavkin

The article makes an attempt to update the Caucasian heritage of Georgy Filippovich Malyavkin, a researcher of the Kabardian and Chechen communities, folklore and ethnography of the Nogais of Dagestan, Balkars and Terek Cossacks. The publications of G. F. Malyavkin marked the beginning of a deep study of the forms of communal land ownership and opened to the Russian public the unique world of the peoples of the North Caucasus, which retained traces of archaic religious and mythological ideas.
The collector's field research made it possible to identify the features of beliefs, rituals, ethnogenetic legends and songs of a number of ethnic groups and ethnographic groups in the region. At the same time, following established stereotypes reduced the level of G.F. Malyavkin’s Caucasian heritage.