Tags: Ethnic Group.
The Bezhta (also Kapuchi) are an Andi–Dido people living in the Tsunta region in southwestern Dagestan. In the 1930s along with the rest of the Andi-Dido peoples they were classified as Avars. However some people identified themselves as Bezhta in the 2002 census of Russia. They speak the Bezhta language but many of them also speak Avar Russian or other Tsezic languages of their region.The Bezhta are primarily Sunni Muslims. They numbered 1448 in 1926.