The North Caucasus Research and Heritage Institute is a
non-profit non-governmental academic institution aimed at exploration and discovery of scientific data on the peoples and civilizations that inhabited the North Caucasus in ancient times,
in addition to preservation and protection of what remains of
the cultures, customs, and languages of the North Caucasus.

The institute is an independent body and is not affiliated with any other organization, nor is it a subsidiary of any other institute or research center. However, we intend to establish partnerships and close cooperative relations with other institutes, research centers, organizations, associations, and individuals involved in identical or parallel areas of study.

It has become apparent in recent times that the peoples of the North Caucasus are in danger of extinction outside their native land due to shrinking numbers of native language speakers and deaths of elders in society, as well as pressures to assimilate in societies the diaspora currently resides. When combined with the Russification of the peoples of the North Caucasus, we are faced with a crisis of major proportions that will all but become reality
in the next 20 to 50 years.

From all the data we have accumulated and are still gathering, there is no question that the peoples of the North Caucasus go back to very ancient times. So ancient in fact that they may even predate the great ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Greece, and Egypt. Yet the debate or research on such matters seems almost nonexistent today and any new discoveries in or about the North Caucasus are usually credited to Russia, the behemoth most guilty of accelerating the extinction of the indigenous population of the North Caucasus.

This institute is an effort to stem the tide of extinction of North Caucasus peoples, their cultures, and their languages. With your help, the North Caucasus diaspora, and the peoples of the North Caucasus themselves, we hope to make a difference.

For the many individuals who visit our site, please note that the site is updated infrequently due to the fact that research is a long term process and many projects take quite some time for tangible results to materialize. Occasionally, there will be some additions to certain pages that are of considerable interest to many of our visitors.

   

    The photos show what
    the Russians did, and
    are still doing to the
    civilians in Chechnya.
    Open Wound's graphic
    pictures illustrate the
    systematic destruction
    and extermination of
    the Chechen people.

   

     AHMSTA KEBZEH:
     THE SCIENCE OF
     UNIVERSAL AWE
     details the social
     & cultural customs
     of the tradition as
     lived for millennia by
     the Circassians, the
     mountain people of
     the Caucasus.

   

     This book presents,
     for the first time
     in the West, a wide
     variety of these myths
     preserved among four
     related peoples whose
     ancient cultures today
     survive by a thread.