Chokha

This article is about the Caucasian item of clothing. For the nineteenth-century Indian painter, see Chokha (painter).

A chokha, also known as a cherkeska in Russian, is a woolen coat with a high neck that is part of the traditional male dress of the peoples of the Caucasus, as well as Terek and Kuban Cossacks of the former Russian Empire, who subsequently adopted it from the Native peoples of the Caucasus.


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