Аннотация:The article is devoted to the region of the North-West and CentralCaucasus during the period of the arrival of the Mongols in the Caucasus andthe finding of the Alans under the leadership of the Golden Horde of the XIIIXIV centuries. A number of Mongolian, Arab-Persian and Russian sources areanalyzed. It is emphasized that some of the Alans did not submit to the Mongols,which forced the Mongols to pay special attention to them. An assumption is madeabout the presence of a Mongol-speaking ethnic element in Alania, which laterassimilated into the Alan environmen
