The operation stemmed Creating from Nazi Germany 's ideological aim of conquering Conquering the western Soviet Union so that it could be repopulated by Germans ( ) , and to also use Using some Slavs as a slave labour force for the Axis war effort and to annihilate Killing the rest according to Generalplan Ost , and to acquire Getting the oil reserves of the Caucasus and the agricultural resources of Soviet territories .

Members of Vilayat Dagestan , part of Umarov 's Caucasus Emirate took Action credit for the attack Attack on 19 January .

The crisis Catastrophe began Process_start when a group of armed Islamic militants , mostly Ingush and Chechen , occupied Control School Number One ( SNO ) in the town of Beslan , North Ossetia ( an autonomous republic in the North Caucasus region of the Russian Federation ) on 1 September 2004 .

Second Chechen War ( ) , also known as the Second Chechen Сampaign ( ) or officially ( from the Russian point of view ) Counter-terrorist operations on territories of North Caucasian region ( ) , was an armed conflict on the territory of Chechnya and the border regions of the North Caucasus between the Russian Federation and the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria , also with militants of various Islamist groups , fought from August 1999 to April 2009 .

Russia established Building direct rule of Chechnya in May 2000 and after the full-scale offensive , Chechen militant resistance throughout the North Caucasus region continued to inflict heavy Russian casualties and challenge Russian political control over Chechnya for several more years .

Sporadic violence Violence continues throughout the North Caucasus ; occasional bombings and ambushes targeting federal troops and forces of the regional governments in the area still occur .

The Armenian–Tatar massacres ( also known as the Armenian-Tartar war , the Armeno-Tartar war and , more recently , the Azeri-Armenian war ) refers Adducing to the bloody inter-ethnic confrontation between Armenians and Azerbaijanis ( at the time commonly referred Adducing to as `` Caucasian Tatars '' or `` Tatars of the Caucasus '' ) throughout the Russian Caucasus in 1905–1907 .

The Armenian–Tatar massacres ( also known as the Armenian-Tartar war , the Armeno-Tartar war and , more recently , the Azeri-Armenian war ) refers Adducing to the bloody inter-ethnic confrontation between Armenians and Azerbaijanis ( at the time commonly referred Adducing to as `` Caucasian Tatars '' or `` Tatars of the Caucasus '' ) throughout the Russian Caucasus in 1905–1907 .

The government confirmed Check that the accident was caused Causation by terrorists , making this attack Russia 's deadliest outside the North Caucasus region since the 2004 Russian aircraft bombings .

The Russo-Circassian War Hostile_encounter ( 1763–1864 ) involved a series of battles Hostile_encounter and wars Hostile_encounter in Circassia , the northwestern part of the Caucasus , during the course of the Russian Empire 's conquest Conquering of the Caucasus .

The Russo-Circassian War Hostile_encounter ( 1763–1864 ) involved a series of battles Hostile_encounter and wars Hostile_encounter in Circassia , the northwestern part of the Caucasus , during the course of the Russian Empire 's conquest Conquering of the Caucasus .

Various Russian , Caucasus , and Western historians agree Agree_or_refuse_to_act on the figure of ca .

500,000 inhabitants of the highland Caucasus being deported Removing by Russia in the 1860s .

This region consisted for the most part of the region between the westward flowing Motion Kuban River to the north and the Caucasus mountain range to the south , although the Kuban River constituted only part of the northern boundary .

The insurgency Change_of_leadership in the North Caucasus is a low-level armed Bearing_arms conflict Hostile_encounter between Russia and militants associated Collaboration with the Caucasus Emirate and , since June 2015 , Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ( ISIL ) groups .

The insurgency Change_of_leadership in the North Caucasus is a low-level armed Bearing_arms conflict Hostile_encounter between Russia and militants associated Collaboration with the Caucasus Emirate and , since June 2015 , Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ( ISIL ) groups .

It attracted Influence people from the Middle East , North Africa , Europe and Central Asia , who then participated Participation in the conflict Hostile_encounter , but volunteers from the North Caucasus are also fighting Hostile_encounter in Syria .

During its peak , the violence Violence was mostly concentrated Aiming in the North Caucasus republics of Chechnya , Dagestan , Ingushetia and Kabardino-Balkaria .

On 8 March 2015 , Russian authorities charged Criminal_investigation Anzor Gubashev and Zaur Dadaev , both originating Coming_to_be from the Northern Caucasus , with involvement Participation in the crime .

Operation Saturn , revised Change as Operation Little Saturn , was a Red Army operation on the Eastern Front of World War II that led to Causation battles in the North Caucasus and Donets Basin regions of the Soviet Union from December 1942 to February 1943 .

There were five main campaigns : the Sinai and Palestine Campaign , the Mesopotamian Campaign , the Caucasus Campaign , the Persian Campaign , and the Gallipoli Campaign .

The Ottomans had tried to move the Armenians during the Armenian Genocide and occupied Hold the South Caucasus during Summer 1918 .

Catherine the Great of Russia took advantage of the disorder to consolidate her control over the weak polities of the Caucasus , which was , for swaths of it , an integral Persian domain .

He put an end to Process_end the period of dynastic strife and proceeded to re-strengthen the hold of the Caucasus by re-garrisoning the Iranian territories and cities in what is modern-day Dagestan , Azerbaijan , and Armenia , as well as ravaging and recapturing Georgia and reducing its capital Tbilisi to a pile of ashes in 1795 .

The Caucasian War ( ; `` Kavkazskaya vojna '' ) of 1817–1864 was an invasion Attack of the Caucasus by the Russian Empire which resulted in Causation Russia 's annexation of the areas of the North Caucasus , and the ethnic cleansing of Circassians .

The Caucasian War ( ; `` Kavkazskaya vojna '' ) of 1817–1864 was an invasion Attack of the Caucasus by the Russian Empire which resulted in Causation Russia 's annexation of the areas of the North Caucasus , and the ethnic cleansing of Circassians .

It consisted Cause_to_be_included of a series of military actions waged Hold by the Empire against the peoples of the Caucasus including the Adyghe , Abkhaz–Abaza , Ubykhs , Kumyks and Nakh and Dagestanians as Russia sought to expand .

Other territories of the Caucasus ( comprising contemporary eastern Georgia , southern Dagestan , Armenia and Azerbaijan ) were incorporated Cause_to_amalgamate into the Russian empire at various times in the 19th century as a result of Russian wars Hostile_encounter with Persia .

Among the passengers who were killed Killing was Russian Colonel General Gennady Troshev formerly the commander of the North Caucasus Military District ( including Chechnya ) during the Second Chechen War Hostile_encounter and adviser to the President of Russia .

In a broader sense , one can view Perception_active the Georgian–Abkhaz conflict Hostile_encounter as part of a geopolitical conflict Hostile_encounter in the Caucasus region , intensified Cause_change_of_strength at the end Process_end of the 20th century with the dissolution Destroying of the Soviet Union in 1991 .

Smaller military actions took place Process_start in the Baltic , the Caucasus , the White Sea , and the North Pacific .

The resistance Defending broke out Process_start during the Caucasus Campaign Military_operation , in which the Dashnak militias were supported Supporting by the Imperial Russian army to oppose Agree_or_refuse_to_act the Ottomans .

The marathon courses Motion through the Caucasus Mountains in the northern part of the country , the starting Process_start and finishing Process_end points are in the town of Kazbegi located on the historical military road on the foot of Kazbegi Mountain .

The Kazbegi Marathon is both the largest as well as the first racing event held Hold in the Caucasus .

Barjik 's expedition into northern Iran ( and later into Kurdistan and northern Mesopotamia ) may have been an attempt to establish Creating Khazar rule south of the Caucasus Mountains .

The Khazar army at Mosul was defeated Conquering and withdrew Escaping north of the Caucasus Mountains .