Faktory rasprostraneniya russkogo yazyka na Severnom Kavkaze vo vtoroj polovine XIX — nachale XX v.

Abstract

The article examines a complex of factors that led to the wide spread of the Russian language in the post-reform North Caucasus. The Russian language as a state language had a high integrative potential, used in the formation of the imperial universe, performing at the same time obvious socio-political functions. In this capacity, the language was considered during the extensive agricultural colonization of the North Caucasian territories, as a result of which the share of the Russian-speaking population who arrived in the Caucasus began to outnumber the other ethnic groups.