THE MUTUAL INFLUENCE OF THE RUSSIAN POPULATION AND PEOPLES OF THE NORTHEASTERN CAUCASUS IN THE MATERIAL AND THE SPIRITUAL REALM IN THE 18th - FIRST HALF OF THE 19th CENTURY
The article shows that the dialogue of cultures, their mutual influence and interpenetration are the realities of the past and the present for the people of the region on the basis of the complex use of all available sources and scientific literature. In a multi-ethnic environment in the region formed a special state of coexistence and interaction of different ethnic cultures. It is noted that in the North Caucasian society with a variety of ethnic cultures there was a complex internal interchange of spirituality. It is emphasized that a characteristic feature of ethnic cultures of the region was the process of intercultural interaction and relationships that developed between several ethnic cultures in the process of exchange of cultural experience, achievements in the spiritual and material spheres of culture. It is also indicated that one of the most important factors in the ethno-cultural relations of local people with the Russians was their blood and marriage ties. In addition, it is noted that the historical and cultural ties of people of the Caucasus with the Russians and Cossacks were not formed separately, their economic and cultural type of development is in the relationship and that all the people of the region together created the best examples of life support of mankind. A common thread is the idea that polyethnicity, which developed in the past, puts the North Caucasus in the ranks of the most complex, and at the same time significant territories of the Russian Federation, where at the present stage there is a development of new, meeting the present moment and the challenges of the future principles of ethno-cultural interaction, which unfolds against the background of geopolitical, socio-economic processes in the region. The ethnic policy that is being designed here today should be based on the deep-rooted traditions of political and cultural interaction developed in the historical past.