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The article is devoted to the contribution of a well-known historian-orientalist, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Amri Rzaevich Shikhsaidov to the study of land tenure in Dagestan. The authors of the article studied three monographs and a number of articles by A.R. Shikhsaidov, dedicated to the history of the region and its southern part in the VII – XIX centuries. It is important to note that A.R. Shikhsaidov was one of the first to analyze the works of Arab historians and geographers, as well as local Arabic-speaking sources, and extensively studied land arrangements in Dagestan in the early Middle Ages, from the X – XV centuries to the XIX century inclusive. The article analyzes the classification of A.R. Shikhsaidov forms of agriculture. He singled out a number of forms (state land, diya, ikta, waqf and freehold land), which experienced the known influence of political and socio-economic processes in the region and changed during the historical process. The authors of the article show the contribution of the scholar in identifying and characterizing changes in the status of land tenure forms in the historical process. The authors emphasize the importance of the material, introduced by A.R. Shikhsaidov in the scientific circulation, for each of these forms of land ownership. The scientific value of the analogies carried out by Professor Shikhsaidov for various forms of land ownership that existed in Dagestan with various forms of land ownership in the countries of Western Europe, Russia and the South Caucasus countries is emphasized.The article is of an overview nature and will be useful both for the study of the work of a prominent Dagestan scholar and for researchers in the development of land relations in Dagestan.

The article presents new data on the Nogai folk ornament, obtained during expeditionary researches in the Dagestan Republic, Chechen Republic, Astrakhan Region, Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Stavropol Territory, and in Moscow and St. Petersburg in 2014 - 2016. These are materials of 83 private collections, expositions and funds of 13 central and regional museums, five archives, and four libraries. Ornamented objects of the Nogai decorative and applied art stored in museums and private collections were examined. These are mainly metal artworks of the 19th - early 20th cc., objects made of soft materials of late 19th - the 1980s, wooden objects of the first half of the 20th century. In some cemeteries of the Nogai District of the Dagestan Republic, carved stone sepulchral stelae ('syntas') of the19th - 20th cc. were studied. Two authors albums with traditional Nogai ornaments, unique stencils made of white paper and used as a silhouette base of patterns in felt carpets ('kiyiz') and for decoration of clothes, head-dresses, tobacco pouches, shoes, pillows, and blankets were revealed during the field studies and recorded. During the research, all the revealed objects of the Nogai decorative and applied art with traditional ornament were photographed, their detailed inventory and large-scale sketches were made. The stencil patterns and drawings from the albums were copied. As a result of the researches in 2014 - 2016, a database of the Nogai folk ornament has been replenished with 942 objects and 1102 kinds of stencils and drawings.