The article examines in detail the state of the historiography, revealing the participation of the peoples of Kabardino-Balkaria in the Great Patriotic War in Soviet and post-Soviet periods. Special attention is given to the vexed issues that require additional study: accounting and mobilization activities, the reasons for the restrictive policy of the state regarding call-up, desertion and сollaborationism in the region, the number of conscripts into the Red Army, casualties, the fates of prisoners of war, the feats of the natives of Kabardino-Balkaria during the war
