Who are the malakans? what do they do in kars?

Famous for its cheddar cheese and livestock farming, Kars achieved these thanks to malachans. So who are the malakans? The community members we know as the Malakans were an Orthodox religious community living in Russia before the Bolshevik Revolution, in the early 19th century. However, when this group started to exhibit protest movements outside the Russian Orthodox Church, behaving differently from other Orthodox groups, they got into a lot of conflict with the church. For example, while the Russian Tsarist Church imposed them simply to drink milk at most two days a week, they were in favor of drinking milk every day. In addition, the Malakans were anti-war and engaged in mass weapons burning. They did not use churches, did not have priests as an intermediary, did not use crosses, and were a community that did not eat pork. In short, this very religious community took the example of the Old Testament, which was mostly based on Judaism, and argued that nobody could intermediate between God and man. They opposed church authority in Tsarist Russia and were ultimately excommunicated. Since the Malakan and Dukobor tribes in Russia were always contradictory, they started to be known as "Spirit Wrestlers" and "Milk Drinkers". The future of the Malakans, which was regarded as undesirable in Russia, started to become clear with the capture of Kars after the Ottoman-Russian War, known as the 93 War. When the Russians made an effort to colonize in Kars after the Treaty of Berlin, it was the first thing they did to exile the Malakans to these regions and to immediately colonize them.In this way, they would both get rid of this difficult anti-war community they did not like and establish a Russian population power superiority against the local majority of Turks and Azerbaijan in Kars. The Malakan community reached Kars via Georgia after a long immigration journey in groups from Russia, and they were allowed to settle in villages that are suitable for agriculture and river banks, as demonstrated by the Russian State. The Malakans quickly adapted to their new country and started to sign important agricultural revolutions in Kars by applying the modern techniques of that period, which they learned from both the Dutch and the Swiss in agriculture and animal husbandry. By integrating with the local population very quickly, they started to teach all they knew. In short, they got on very well with the Muslim population in all matters except for giving girls. There was no religious distinction, as the church did not use priests and crosses. The Malakans used nature very well, they built flour mills on the banks of the streams, learned and taught fast agriculture by using horses in agriculture. They obtained more milk than normal by raising Malakan cows, and by establishing zavots, which are factories, they started to produce çecil, gruyere and cheddar cheese. They started potato and sugar beet production for the first time in the region. They started raising geese and were very successful in music and art. While everything was going well for the Malakans, Turks and Armenians living under Russian rule in Kars from 1878 to 1917, the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 was the beginning and the end of everything. When the Russians left Kars, some of the Malakans returned to Russia. The rest continued to live in Kars between 1918 and 1919. The remaining Malakans even assisted the Turks as delegates against the British in the establishment of the Caucasus South Garp Republic, the first republic in Anatolia. Kars was now their common homeland. But the Malakans were an anti-war community, and not fighting anyone was their red line; no matter who.In 1919, when they were invited by the National Forces to fight alongside the Turkish army, the Malakans gave the same answer to their beloved Turks: "We are not fighting, there are no weapons". that In the end, the last Malakans of Kars, who could not bear the pressure, decided to leave the Caucasus with the ships that berthed to Batumi with the help of the famous writer and Malakan friend Tolstoy. Some of them had to migrate to countries away from the war such as the United States, Canada and Australia. The other Malakans they left behind left Anatolia in fear as a result of the September 6 and 7 events in Istanbul, while the Cyprus Operation and the wave of immigration caused by Germany's recruitment caused the last Malakans to leave completely. Divorce was forbidden in Malakanlar. Malakan women wore headscarves after marriage. Although some Malakans who went to Russia wanted to return to Kars again, the Russian government did not allow return by taking their passports. Today, there are 3 families living in Kars today. There is a very old sweet Malakan couple living in Çakmak Village. Some of them married Turks and somehow assimilated, but they are still trying to maintain and promote the Malakan culture.

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