A village Gymry is being a symbol of the independence and freedom of the mountaineers, a center of Islamic culture and a Mecca for the pilgrims. In the 19th century when the imperial Russia was conquering the Caucasus it was Gymry which became the battle line which the Russian troops were unsuccessfully trying to breakthrough. After the fierce assault when the Russians burst in Gymry, the first Imam of Dagestan Ghazi-Mohammed who was in control of the defense of the village, jumped out of the castle onto the bayonets of the Russians. This death became the symbol of the mountaineers rebellion to Imperial Russia. In the 30s on the 19th century the most famous Imam of Dagestan and Chechnya Shamil was born in Gymry. He was the head on the fight of the mountaineers with Russian army for 25 years. Since then Gymry is sacred place for many Moslems. Today Gymry is on the battle line again. This line goes between the secular way of living and the Islamic traditions which are getting stronger. The security agencies are trying to suppress the blistering Islamisation of Dagestan. But the more Russia pressures the local Moslems, the more they oppose. The border between Russian mentality and new Caucasus mentality passes just here.