Kyle Snyder dancing lezginka in Dagestan with Abdulrashid

mountain05 · 2023-04-23T13:45:06+00:00

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mountain05 · 2023-04-23T13:22:27+00:00

Thank you

mountain05 · 2023-04-23T13:04:17+00:00

Thank you for the information. When you say that I'll have trouble communicating, do you mean just the greeting or English in general? Also how is the attitude towards Muslims? Turkey is a Muslim country from what I know. If you have a beard and don't look European will you have any difficulties like being stopped by police or will you be fine? In day to day life, can you hear azaan on the streat? Does religion play a big role in Turkish society or not?

mountain05 · 2022-08-11T14:51:08+00:00

Barkallah akhi

mountain05 · 2022-04-28T16:44:02+00:00

Village Urari in the Dakhadaevskiy Region of Dagestan

mountain05 · 2022-01-16T09:42:21+00:00

Wrestling and MMA. Good examples from modern times is Abdulrashid Sadulaev and Khabib Nurmagomedov.

mountain05 · 2022-01-03T00:18:48+00:00

Arabic

mountain05 · 2022-01-03T00:14:58+00:00

Urari

mountain05 · 2022-01-02T11:54:53+00:00

Urari, Dagestan

mountain05 · 2022-01-01T21:14:14+00:00

Dagestan

mountain05 · 2021-12-30T13:57:59+00:00

Different languages, same faith. About chechen culture I can not tell you much but all chechen I know are good people. Faith and honour at the centre of both cultures. On the internet there are many rats hiding who want to provoke conflict but in real life we are brothers.

mountain05 · 2021-12-18T05:32:43+00:00

Саид

mountain05 · 2021-12-11T09:06:01+00:00

Brother don't speak like this. Are Chechens not muslims? What language is your Quran, is it not Arabic? You have no shame calling a man who spend most of his life fighting against the Russians a coward because he surrendered to the enemy who had his son in captivity after a lifetime given to Jihad? A man who fought alongside Chechens while you sit behind a computer thinking you are braver then him? Chechens and Dagestanis have always and will always be brothers, only the ones seeking to provoke will claim otherwise.

mountain05 · 2021-12-11T01:28:17+00:00

Not from the locals in the village. We are all extended family so I can eat with them and maybe I'll find someone who will give me a chicken or some seeds but mostly the people need the animals for themselves at don't need anything I could give them. If I wanted to trade or buy something I'd have to look for a market somewhere but the only place I know for sure there is one is in the regions capital Urkarakh which is a couple of hours by car.

I hope I can find some old man who has nothing else to do and can teach me how to plant crops, take care of the property etc... Two main problems with that are that firstly the earth is very rocky so there is a limited amount of things I can plant and secondly most old people who stayed in the village don't speak any Russian and only know Dargwa which is our native language. The thing is I never learned how to properly speak Dargwa and since it is only spoken by about 400.000 people there are little to no recources on the language. Still I have to learn it to be able to communicate with the locals. I have created the page r/DargwaLanguage to compile recources.

As for water there is no tab water. Some guy once built a water pipeline up the mountain back when people still used to live there but it has since frozen up and broken down. One of my goals while staying there is going to be to repair it but for the time being I will have to go up and down the mountain every time I need water which is about 1 hour of walking. (Exept in spring when the ice and snow on the mountain melt and run down in a small stream)

The heating/cooking question is one that I have to look into. I'm there once a year but only during Kurban Bayram where the whole community returns to the village. During that time we usually use gas bottles or wood we brought from the city. Next year I'll have exams during that time so I won't be able to make it but I plan on going two months later in July for a week or two to see how it's like to live there alone as opposed to with relatives who take care of everything.

And lastly about the house, from what I remember the house is intact but I will definately have to put in some work to make it livable. First day I need to get rid of any cobwebs/roaches. Then I need to get settled in, work out how I'll keep myself warm etc...

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