Introductory article, drafting, preparation of texts and notes H. In. Kapieva / L. : Soviet writer, 1970. — 584 s. - Tir. 10,000; C. 1 p. 06 k. (Poetry Library .) The Grand Series . 2nd Edition . The book presents the best examples of rich song creativity of the peoples of Dagestan: epic and historical songs, ballads, love, ritual, work, household songs, jokes and lullaby. They have variously reflected the life of the mountaineers, the historical past of Dagestan, the drama of social relations, the disenfranchisement of a Goryanka woman, peculiar customs and rituals, the struggle of the mountaineers for independence. The book is not only about old songs . There are songs about the civil war, about Lenin, about the arrival and approval of Soviet power, about the socialist transformation of Dagestan.