History of Science and Engineering Annotation << Back CONGRESS OF ENTRUSTED OF KABARDA AND FIVE MOUNTAIN SOCIETIES IN THE SOVIET HISTORIOGRAPHY D.N. Prasolov In article the main directions of a research of activities of congress of entrusted Kabardians and Balkars of the second half of XIX–the beginning of the 20th century in the Soviet historiography are considered. The determining value of class approach in interpretation of decisions of congress of entrusted, connected with a regulation land relations is revealed. Congresse of entrusted were mentioned in works of the 1920–1970th mainly in connection with development of the land question and change of instructions for use by Zolsky pastures at the beginning of the 20th century. Zh. A. Kalmykov's work in which this representative institute is for the fi rst time considered as the multipurpose social and political institute which has arisen in the 60th of the 19th century during reforms in Kabarda and Balkaria became the most important achievement of the Soviet historiography in a research of activity of the congress entrusted. Keywords: Kabardians; Balkars; the Nalchik district; the post-reform period; the congress entrusted Stolypin agrarian policy; a historiography. Contacts: E-mail: dmprasolov@gmail.com Pp. 075-079.