Abstract: The subject of this study is a historical document called “The Act of Oath of Six Ingush Families of Russia,” signed by the Nazran Ingush on August 22, 1810 in the Vladikavkaz fortress, and the processes that took place on the river Terek at the beginning of the 19th century. Particular attention in the text is paid to the political and religious views of famous leaders of the Chechen abreks of the first third of the 19th century – foreman Beybulat Teimiev, the fugitive Kabardian prince Almaksid Mudarov (Kanchokin), the pro-Russian Chechen princes Magomed and Mussa Turlov, and their role in the confrontation between the Nazran Ingush and the tsarist administration. The contradictory nature of their relationship with the tsarist administration in the North Caucasus, as well as with the lowland Ingush societies, is shown. To solve the set goals and objectives, the author used a significant amount of scientific literature and archival data. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the approach to studying the reasons for signing this document and in an attempt to give a more complete picture of the events that preceded its signing. The author comes to the conclusion that the Nazran act was the result of a year-long confrontation between the Ingush foreman Shikh-Murza and the tsarist administration in Vladikavkaz, which began in April 1809. Realizing that on their own they would not be able to effectively resist the tsarist troops, the Ingush entered into an alliance with the abreks, headed by Sergeant Major B. Teimiev and Prince A. Kanchokin. However, the Russians eventually managed to overcome the resistance of the Nazran Ingush and force them to sign the above-mentioned “act of oath.”

Abstract: The article examines the question of the origin of the self–name of one of the modern Nakh peoples – Ingush – Gialgiai. According to a number of researchers, the term "gIalgIai" in the form of "kalkans, kalkans, kalki, kolki, etc., in Russian sources is first found in the article lists of the XVI–XVII centuries. However, according to the author, the term appeared much earlier than that time. The purpose of the article is to show the connection of this term with the name of the ancient people of the Eastern Black Sea region – the Kolkhovs, based on the etymological analysis of the ethnonym "gIalgIai", as well as the analysis of historical and historiographical sources. In addition, the article attempts to link the ethnonym "gIalgIai" with the name of the eponymous ancestor of the Nakh peoples in medieval Georgian sources – "Kavkas". When studying this issue, the author used historical-genetic, historical-chronological, narrative, historical-comparative and comparative methods. According to the author, the name "gIalgIai" is one of the oldest endo-ethnonyms of the Nakh peoples. In the course of the study, the author comes to the conclusion that the ethnonym "gIalgIai" is of the same origin as the name Kolkhov. At the same time, a comprehensive analysis of written sources and ethnographic material conducted by the author shows that the eponym "Kavkas" is a Greek translation of the Assyrian term "ḫabḫu", which designated the Hurrian-Urartian tribes. In turn, "ḫabḫu" goes back to "qulḫa" – the common self-name of the Hurrian-Urartian tribes. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that for the first time the comparison of the term "gIalgIai" with the ancient ethnonym "kolkhi (kolkhai)" is carried out, conducting a thorough analysis of a large volume of historical and historiographical sources. The author also outlined promising areas for further research on this issue.

Abstract: The subject of the research in this article is some questions of the history of the Ingush ethnoterritorial society – Dzheyrakhovtsy (ing. Zhiyrakhoi), localized in the sources of the XVI-XVIII centuries on the territory of the Dzheyrakh gorge, in the lower reaches of the Armkhi river, as well as in the gorge of the Terek River to S. V. Lars. The purpose of the article is to study the question of the origin of this society and to identify the reasons for its inclusion in the Ossetian tribe by some authors of the XIX century. And also to show the unreasonableness of such an assignment. As a theoretical basis, the works of researchers from different periods who studied the issue of the Vainakh population on the left bank of the Terek River and the origin of Ingush ethnoterritorial associations of the XVI-XIX centuries are involved. The analysis of information from historical sources related to the issue under study is carried out. Using the historical and systematic method, the processes that led to the formation of the Jeyrakh society and the reasons for their classification as Ossetians are studied. The relevance of the topic is determined by the fact that the Dzheyrakh society is one of the Western Vainakh ethnoterritorial associations that formed the modern Ingush people. Therefore, the history of this society is directly connected with the history of the entire Ingush people. In the course of the study, the author comes to the conclusion that the main reason for classifying the Dzheyrakhovs in some sources of the XIX century to the Ossetian tribe was that this Ingush society was formed by Vainakh settlers from the left bank of the Terek River, who underwent significant Iranization due to long-term cohabitation with the numerically predominant Ossetian population. The choice of a new place of residence by the settlers was determined, as a rule, by its geographical location, economic significance, as well as the attitude of the local population towards them. Therefore, in some cases, migrants settled in Ingush farms and completely dissolved among the indigenous inhabitants, while in others they founded new villages and societies. One of these societies, formed by them, was the Dzheyrakhov society.

Abstract: The subject of the research in the article is the question of the Galgai expansion in the interfluve of Fortanga and Argun in the XV–XVIII centuries, in the context of the question of the tribal affiliation of the Ferings from the Akka folk legend about the Ferings. The analysis of information from historical sources related to these issues is carried out. The purpose of this article is to show the Galgai presence in the interfluve of Fortanga and Argun in the XV–XVIII centuries, as well as their connection with the mythical Feringami people, who, according to information from the Akka legend, came from the "Galgai societies" around the XV century, seized the upper reaches of the Gekhi River and tried to subjugate this territory through its colonization and the spread of the Christian religion among the local pagan population. To achieve this goal, the author has attracted a significant amount of scientific literature and archival data, comparing them with information from Ingush and Chechen folklore. In the course of the study, the author comes to the conclusion that the in XV–XVIII centuries there was an active expansion of the Galgai tribes in the interfluve of Fortanga and Argun and their colonization of this territory. This is reflected in some Chechen legends. After the crushing blow inflicted in the XVI century by the Kabardino-Nogai army, the Galgaevites were forced out of the flat territories. However, in the second half of the XVII century, led by Etagai Agishbatoysky and with the support of the Avar princes Turlov, they managed to liberate the flat lands between Argun and Terek from the Nogais, after which they founded their settlements here. The relevance of this article lies in the fact that it additionally highlights an important issue for the study of the main migration routes of Ingush tribes in the XV–XVIII centuries.