Purpose: The article focuses on the genetic relationship of Dagestan people majority, which was reflected in the archaic layer of culture, on the processes of interethnic historical and cultural interrelations, which are generally characterized with a sufficient intensity in Dagestan. Methodology: The article is a generalizing analysis of multinational Dagestan oral-poetic creativity, the statement of the positions and conclusions on the genesis and the centuries-old functioning of a unique folkloric unity in diversity. Main Findings: Dagestan folklore material, in particular such genres as myths, legends, legends, heroic epic, heroic historical and historical songs and ballads, ritual poetry genres, unconscious lyrics, the fairy epics of its variety, parables, oral stories and anecdotes, proverbs, sayings and riddles are characterized by their commonality and mutual influences, conditioned by the historical and cultural interrelationships of Dagestan peoples. Implications: Dagestan folklore material allows us to draw important conclusions concerning not only the peculiarities of the functioning of folklore in a particular region, but also the general theory of folklore. Novelty: The very syncretic nature of folklore dictates the need for a complex attraction to the object of analysis of the verbal, musical, ethno-graphic and other components of this field of art, which makes it possible to more deeply and broader comprehend the above unity in diversity.