Film about the results of the ethnographic blogger’s “Shapsug's Expedition”, held in October-November 2018 in 13 villages (auls) of the Black Sea Circassians-Shapsugs of the Krasnodar Territory in the Tuapse and Lazarevsky Districts. The first part is a story about the Black Sea Shapsugs, their history, life, religion, as well as an overview of the auls of Psebe and Aguy-Shapsug in the Tuapse district.
Blacksmiths of Dolmen's era (North-West Caucasus, 2-nd millenium BC) (Eng subs)
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Field interview with the historian and archaeologist Mikhail Kudin on iron processing in the era of dolmen builders in the North-West Caucasus. The story about blacksmiths and blacksmithing on the example of an archaeological monument in the valley of the river Ashe, Lazarevsky district of Sochi (Krasnodar territory, Russia). Details of processing of local type of iron, the connection of the forge and dolmens, Tlepsh's (blacksmith) graves, reflection of the blacksmith in the mythology of the Circassians through the Nart epic.