The Karaites, a fragment of the Khazar Kahalate, are small in number. They have an original and bright history. You can be acuainted with it in the cave town of Chfit-Kaleh (the name means ''Judaic Fortress", Karaimism is a confession clise to Judaism). The Karaite language belongs to the Kupchak subgroup of the Turkic Languages, but Karaites' mode of life is close that of Jews. Besides our territory, Karaites live in Lituania; there they aredescendants of the personal guards of Lituanian Princes, and also in the western part of Ukraine.