Russian–Kumyk Wars

Russo-Kumyks Wars
	Part of Russian conquest of the Caucasus
	; Tarki. View from the Caspian Sea. Milutin's sketch
Date	16th–18th centuries
Location	North Caucasus, Kumykia, Dagestan
Territorial; changes	In 1786, the Tarkov Shamkhalate became a vassal of Russia
Belligerents
Tsardom of Russia; Kabardia	Shamkhalate of Tarki; Endireev Principality; other Kumyk and Dagestans feudal entities
Commanders and leaders
Ivan IV the Terrible; Temryuk Idar; Boris Godunov; Alexis of Russia ; Peter I; Aleksey Yermolov; Nikita Pankratiev other Russian commanders	Chopan ibn Buday ; Buday I ; Sultan-Mahmud Endireevsky ; other Kumyk rulers

The Russian–Kumyk wars (Kumyk: Orus-Qumuq Dawlar) were a series of military conflicts between the Russian Tsardom (and later the Russian Empire) and the Kumyk Tarki Shamkhalate and other Kumyk states and feudal possessions (the Principality of Endirey, the Utamysh Sultanate, the Mehtuli Khanate, Kaitag Utsmiate and other Dagestani and North Caucasian entities) during the 16th–18th centuries. At the end of the 18th century, as well as during and after the Caucasian War, and throughout the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries, conflicts continued in the form of uprisings in Shamkhalate, Northern Kumykia, Southern Kumykia, and in the form of anti-colonial protests of individual villages (societies). In the result of these wars and uprisings, some Kumyk areas and villages were destroyed several times over.