Traditional Circassian Harvest Festival in the Jambechiy Village in Adigea in 1949.
The Circassians of the Adigean Oblast celebrate the end of harvest in the Jambechiy village in 1949. The National Dance Ensemble of Adigea (later “Nalmes”) perform traditional Circassian dances. Circassian dare-devil riders show off their riding skills. The First Secretary of the Adigean Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) Khaleed B. Kade (1909-1958) delivers a speech (in Circassian) on the success of Soviet socialism and on the year’s bumper crops.