[6][2][7][8] It is widely accepted as the final military engagement of the Russo-Circassian War,[9][10][11][4][12] as the Circassian people could no longer continue to resist the invading Imperial Russian Army.

A significant development in the wider Caucasian War, it was after the Battle of Qbaada that the Russian Empire annexed Circassia and initiated the Circassian genocide, in which 95% to 97% of the country's population was ethnically cleansed, leading to the creation of the Circassian diaspora.

The Circassians gathered 20,000 men and women, mostly local villagers, Abreks, and tribal horsemen.

[citation needed] A military parade was held after the battle and 100 surviving Circassian warriors were publicly executed.

[citation needed] Russian troops then continued raiding and torching Circassian villages, driving many of their inhabitants into the Black Sea and destroying much of the landscape to prevent them from returning.