Keywords: Adygeyan educators, Kabardian language, national literature, secular schools, Arabic writing

The article is devoted to Kazi Atazhukin, the bright representative of the second generation of Adygeyan educational movement. The publication by him of series of articles: «Attempts to introduce the Kabardian written language», «Reply to T. Makarov» and many others became generalization of his teaching experience gained while working on educational courses for rural teachers. This article discusses his dispute with T. Makarov on the introduction a national written language based on the Russian alphabet. T. Makarov advocated the Arabic script.