The Caucasus region is located between the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov and the Caspian Sea and covers an area of about 450,000 square kilometers. The Greater Caucasus Mountains, which stretch for more than 1,000 kilometers, run from west to east and become the dividing line between the North and South Caucasus.

The northern side of the mountain range is called the Pre-Caucasus or North Caucasus and belongs to Russia

; The southern side is called Transcaucasia or South Caucasus and includes the three kingdoms of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.

The Caucasus is located at the junction of Europe and Asia, the main route of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, bordered by Russia to the north, Turkey to the southwest, and Iran to the southeast.

Due to its strategic importance, the Caucasus region has historically become a place of great power competition in the region.

In addition, the Caucasus has a large number of ethnic groups, about 50 nationalities.

The western part is dominated by Adigai, Karchay, Kabardan and Ossetian; In the east, there are mainly Chechens and Ingush, as well as the Kumyks, Avars and Lezkins of Dagestan, in addition to a number of other lesser mountain peoples.

The main ethnic groups of the South Caucasus are Georgians in the north, Armenians in the south, and Azerbaijanis in the east.

Since the topography of the Caucasus is divided into plains, mountains, high mountains. Due to the mountainous terrain and complex terrain, although many ethnic groups are close at hand, they do not understand the language at all, and the relations between ethnic groups are complicated.

The ancient Roman writer Pliny has an interesting account in his Naturalist Chronicles that the Romans did business in the Caucasus through more than 80 translators.

The Republic of Chechnya is an autonomous republic under the North Caucasus Federal District of the Russian Federation. It has a population of about 270,000. The Republic is located in the mountainous region of the North Caucasus, bordered by the Republic of Ingushetia and the Republic of North Ossetia to the west, the Stavropol Krai to the northwest, the Republic of Dagestan to the east, and Georgia to the south.

The Chechen Republic covers an area of just over 10,000 square kilometers, but it is strategically located as a choke point in and out of the Caucasus.

The capital is Grozny.

In the 10 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Chechen Republic and the Russian army engaged in many clashes, and finally the illegal Chechen armed forces were completely wiped out. But skirmishes do not occur from time to time.

The peculiarities of the geographical location of the Caucasus region and the complexity of the ethnic composition have formed a unique historical and geographical landscape of Chechnya.

The Chechens are the oldest indigenous people in the Caucasus.

For a long period of time, the Chechens engaged in agricultural cultivation in the plains, herding cattle in the mountains, raising sheep and horses, etc. However, due to the poverty of the land, Chechens generally rely on animal husbandry as their main source of income.

In addition, there is also a rushing "plunder economy" among the mountain people, that is, plundering the cattle and sheep of other ethnic groups or former merchants. For the free-spirited, warlike Chechens, there is no shame in plundering other people's property.

Correspondingly, the Chechens formed a certain system of free village communities.

The social form of the Chechens is based on blood relations, consisting of different taipu (equivalent to tribes) of various large and small families, the system of elders, acting in accordance with customary law, and advocating "blood revenge", that is, if a member of a certain family is killed, the murderer or someone in the killer's family must pay for his life.

The early form of social organization of the Chechens was adapted to the fragile local economy and was conducive to ensuring the survival and development of individuals in the face of low economic development.

The long-term self-sufficiency of the natural economy of the clan society and the very backward productive forces have fostered the Chechens' 'rush' way of making a living, creating a free and unrestrained atmosphere of the Chechens.

The arduous living environment and the hardships of foreign aggression have forged the national character of the Chechens who are unruly and fierce."

Perhaps it is precisely because of this character that Chechens are accustomed to a free life and do not want to be controlled by others. ，

The earliest records of Chechnya are at the beginning of the 7th century.

The term "Chechens" originated from the name of the village "Great Chechnya" on the banks of the Argun River, and later gradually became the ethnic name of the Chechen nation.

Chechens call themselves "Nakhchos", which means "common people".

The Chechens were invaded by the Mongol-Tatars in the 13th century,

At the end of the 14th century, it was ravaged by the troops of the Timurid Empire in Central Asia.

It was not until the dissolution of the Golden Horde in the 15th-16th centuries that Chechens began to migrate from the mountains to the plains.

From the 16th to the 19th centuries, the religion began to be introduced to Chechnya.

At the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries, Chechnya began to be the object of contention among the three empires of Persia, Ottoman, and Russia, and after that, Chechnya experienced more than two centuries of war.

Since the Ottoman invasion in the 15th century, the Chechen people have resisted foreign invasions in the mountains of the Caucasus. Tensions with the Ottoman Empire have been eased since the defection to the Ottoman Empire, but conflicts with the Christian Georgians and Cossacks and the Buddhist Kalmyks have been escalating.

At the end of the 18th century, Catherine II launched the Fifth Russo-Turkish War, defeated the Ottoman Empire, and took control of the Crimean Khanate, and Russia's power expanded into the North Caucasus.