[KavkazUzel] Jews lived in the North Caucasus for many centuries and made a significant contribution to the cultural and social life of Dagestan, Chechnya and Kabardino-Balkaria. The traditions and life of Mountain Jews fit organically into the life of other peoples of the Caucasus, but by now the Jewish communities in the North Caucasus were on the verge of extinction. The history of the indigenous Jewish population of the region is described in the information of the "Caucasian Knot".Â
MODERNITY AND RECENT PAST
By 2016, there were only about 10,000-11,000 Mountain Jews in the North Caucasus, with the largest of the Jewish communities formed in Pyatigorsk - about seven thousand Mountain Jews who arrived from the republics of the North Caucasus and Azerbaijan live there. The Derbent community, the oldest, then numbered about 400,000 people.