Music and Time Annotation << Back Proletarian Culture as the Main Vector of Development of the National Drama of the Kabardins M.A. Shakhmurzova The article deals with the complexity of processing folklore material, the need to change the love and family history to a socio-political one, which has a revolutionary character. А raise the problem of the infl uence of censorship on the development of proletarian art in the postrevolutionary period, in the era of tacit approval of the topic on which writers and theater directors could work, which naturally deprived playwrights of creative freedom. It was determined that the play of Zaramuk Kardangushev «Kanshoubi and Guashagag» is the beginning of the formation of professional drama of Kabardians. Keywords: theater, national drama, «Kanshoubi and Guashagag», folklore, proletarian art, social struggle, Kardangushev, censorship, freedom of creativity. Pp. 33-36.