S. Bronevsky in 1823 reported that Bragun’s possession “belongs to two Kumyk princes - cousins, Colonel Kuchun-Bek (Kuchuk) Taymazov and Akhtula-Bek”, but he also notes that this possession “is attributed to the Circassian regions according to the natural outline of living natural boundaries, although the Bragun inhabitants, being of Tatar origin, belong to the Kumyk branch itself”.