[4] However, it no longer suited the Russian administration, which was determined to completely annex the region through which the Western and Eastern Caucasus communicated.

The Karachay also threatened the stability of the imperial presence in the region, as many of them felt a stronger allegiance to the Ottoman empire, with whom they shared the Islamic faith with.

in 1826, even before the arrival of General Emmanuel with a Russian army in the Caucasus, the Karachais had "sworn allegiance to the Ottoman Empire and gave amanates there in opposition to the peace treaty between Russia and the Porte...".

From that time on, the Karachays living in inaccessible gorges began to pose the greatest danger to some Russian possessions in the Caucasus.

With its geographical location, Karachay separated the Trans-Kuban mountain peoples from the Kabardians and other tribes who lived in the center of the Caucasian line, not allowing them to help each other and act against us with their combined forces...[10] In the journal of military operations for the month of June 1827, there is evidence that the Karachais, having formed a "party" of 300 people, stole Cossack cattle from the Baksan River and other places.

[11] Taking advantage of the inaccessible terrain, the Karachais not only carried out "daring raids" themselves, but in June 1828 they "took part in the destruction of villages.

[5] At the same time of the Circassian raid on the village of Nezlobnaya, another "detachment of predators", consisting of Kabardians and Karachais, numbering about three thousand, was noticed in the zone between Urup and B. Zelenchuk, and was advancing towards Batalpashinsk.

[6] In the "most loyal report" of Count Ivan Paskevich dated 16 November 1828, the following was subsequently noted about the reasons for the campaign against the Karachays[12] General Emanuel reports that in order to ensure calm on the line, he considered it necessary to undertake an expedition against the Karachais: „a people living on the snowy heights of the Caucasus, in the peaks of the Kuban, who, in the hope of the inaccessibility of their lands, fearlessly gave shelter and assistance to all Trans-Kuban predators who passed through their lands for carrying out raids in the space between Kuban and Terek.

Malki, at the "Stone Bridge", under the command of Major General Turchaninov, including 550 infantry, 300 Cossacks from line and Don various regiments, 4 guns and 2 hand mortars.

Ust-Dzhegutinsky, under the command of Major Romashev, was ordered to join Lukovkin's column and take part in the campaign against the Karachais.

[5] Having strengthened the vanguard, General Emmanuel moved all the troops to the pass; 100 Cossack horse breeders were walking in the rear.

Finally, the Karachais were forced to leave the last pass and retreat through forests and rocks to the opposite side of the gorge towards the Kuban.

U. Aliyev states that: "The Karachais, shrouded in the darkness of the coming night, retreated through such terrain where the troops could easily lose the fruits of a dearly won victory if the mountaineers, having come to their senses, made a night attack (tradition says that in This is the fault of the mountain princes, who vilely provoked the fighting Karachays with the alleged decision of the ruler of Karachay, the prince of "Islam", to lay down arms...)".

On 21 October ( 2 November ) Karachay parliamentarians came to the general, on the 22nd Oliy Krymshamkhalov visited Emmanuel’s camp, "with all the elders and submitted a petition attached in the name of the entire people," and on the 23rd "the entire Karachay people swore an oath of allegiance to citizenship Sovereign Emperor" with a presentation from both Islam Krymshamkhalov and three more "first families" of amanats, that is, honorary hostages.

[20] Some authors note that the Karachays impeccably complied with the terms of the treaty and did not violate its provisions throughout the subsequent period of the Caucasian War.

A party of predators, having crossed the Kuban, stole 6 rams and 60 cattle from Kabarda and carried away three boys into captivity; the most honorable of the elders of the Karachays, the seventy-year-old old man Krymshamkhalov with 30 of his people rushed in pursuit, caught up with the predators and, despite the fact that there were 140 of them, stopped and held until he received reinforcements from the people, then, having recaptured all the prey from them, returned to the Kabardians according to their ownership.

These cultural expressions have helped maintain a sense of identity and resistance among the Karachay people, even as they became part of the Russian Empire.