Hajji Kizbech Tughuzhuqo (sometimes misspelled as Ghuz Bek; 1777–1840; Adyghe: ШэрэлIыкъо Тыгъужъыкъо Къызбэч, romanized: Ṩərəl'ıqo Tığujzıqo Qızbəç [ʃaraɬʼəqʷa təʁʷəʐəqʷa qəzbatʃ]; Russian: Тугужуко Кызбэч) was a Circassian military commander who took part in the Russo-Circassian War.
Personally witnessing all of his family get killed by the Russian army,[2] Tughuzhuqo was a cavalry commander especially successful in raiding behind enemy lines.
[4] In 1830, Kizbech attacked Elizavinskaya settlement and destroyed it, and in 1834, heading a force of 700 cavaliers, he brutally defeated a 14 thousand soldier Russian troops.
[4] Over many years, he raided several hostile Russian garrisons; Maryanskaya, Georgie, Afepskaya, Apenskaya, and in 1837 while crossing through a field, he was identified by Cossack peasants, who out of their great fear, fled the place leaving behind them 200 sickles.
Despite being for the princes' class, Kizbech took the side of the peasants and was one of the few aristocratic figures that were accepted in the new social structure that the Shapsegh had founded.
Russian General Olshevsky wrote:[7]"Shapsugs are considered the fiercest and most dangerous inhabitants of the coasts of the Black Sea ...
In 2014, in the 150th anniversary of the end of Russo-Circassian War, a group of Circassian nationalists organized the constructing a monument of Kizbech in the village of Afipsip.