North Caucasus Federal University has become the venue for the international scientific and practical conference "Russia and the Peoples of Transcaucasia in the context of the Russian-Turkish wars of the XVIII - early XX century", dedicated to the 110th anniversary of the Battle of Sarykamysh.

The conference was attended by more than 115 scientists and public figures from Armenia, Georgia, Moscow, St. Petersburg, as well as the regions of the North Caucasus and Southern Federal Districts.

The conference program included three sections: "Military conflicts of the XVIII–XIX centuries and their impact on political processes in the Caucasus", "World War I: military-strategic and foreign policy aspects" and "Socio-economic and administrative-political transformations in the Caucasus in the XVIII–XX centuries".

– Countering the falsification of history is the main task of modern scientists, it is a matter of peaceful coexistence of the countries of our Caucasian region in the context of the global information war. Our project is aimed at popularizing Russia's civilizational achievements in world history and highlighting the contribution of the Caucasian states to historical processes. It is important that through the actualization of a specific historical event – the Battle of Sarykamysh – we were able to raise issues of preserving good-neighborly relations between the countries of the Caucasus, and this contributes to the preservation of historical memory and the harmonization of interethnic relations," commented Marina Kolesnikova, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Director of the NCFU Humanitarian Institute.

Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Professor, Director of the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia Ashot Melkonyan delivered a report on the problems of the annexation of Eastern Armenia to Russia at the plenary session. The topic of Georgian participation in the First World War was presented by Professor Joni Kvitsiani and Professor Yuri Sulaberidze from Iv Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.

Igor Kryuchkov, Professor of the Humanities Institute, Head of the Department of General History, and Marina Kolesnikova, Director of the Humanities Institute, who reviewed the Sarykamysh operation and its significance in Russian historiography, made presentations from the North Caucasus Federal University.

The conference included a presentation of the monograph "The Armenian question in International Relations (1895-1923)" and a collection of documents "Russia and the Peoples of Transcaucasia: the end of the XVIII – beginning of the XX century: modernization processes and intercultural dialogue", prepared jointly by the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia and NCFU.

In addition, an international youth school was held at the university, where 30 students from Armenia, Georgia, the North Caucasus Federal District and the Southern Federal District studied. The audience included young researchers, and lectures and master classes were conducted by leading Caucasian scholars from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Stavropol, Tbilisi and Yerevan.

For reference: the event was held within the framework of the NGO Caucasian Research Center Strategicon project with the support of the Government of the Stavropol Territory and the Presidential Grants Fund.