Aidgylara's founding congress took place on 13 December 1988 in the building of the Abkhazian State Philharmonic Orchestra, where the writer Alexey Gogua was elected its first Chairman.
[1] On 18 March 1989, Aidgylara organised the mass gathering at the historical meeting place of Lykhny that demanded from the Soviet leadership the reversal of Abkhazia's 1931 Stalin-era incorporation into Georgia and restoration of full Republic status.
[1] On Aidgylara's initiative, the founding congress of the Assembly of the Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus was held in Sukhumi on 25 and 26 August 1989.
[1] Aidgylara's second congress was held on 3 February 1990, it elected Sergei Shamba to succeed Gogua as Chairman, as well as a board of 51 members.
[3][5] On 17 December 2008, a congress was held in Sukhumi to celebrate Aidgylara's 20th anniversary, which was attended by Russia's Ambassador to Abkhazia Semyon Grigoryev.