Scientific Journal of KubSAU

This article analyzes the early frontier in the Caucasus. In this paper we prove the legality of the use of the concept of "early frontier" for the period of the Russian-Caucasian history. The author, basing on the classic criteria of frontier offered by Turner F.J., compares the main characteristics of early American and Caucasian frontier. During the analysis I allocate the general and specific elements of intercultural communication of this period, which forms the basic mechanisms of frontier community. The article shows how the factor of "intermediate" defines heterotopic, unstable, reversible, transgressionnature of the basic processes and intercultural communication occurring during early frontier. The methodology of this study can be used to analyze different types and stages of the frontier, both historical and contemporary