The Kurdish National Theatre, established in 1937, performs in all the three republics. Kurdish amateur groups of singers and dancers exist in Armenia, and, in Georgia as well. A number of scholars and writers are of Caucasian Kurdish descent. A special group of researchers of the Armenian Academy of Sciences are engaged in the study of Caucasian Kurds. There is also a Kurdish section at the Institute of Asian People of the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg.
Kurdish identity is most endangered in Azerbaijan.
In recent decades the Azerbaijani authorities have been attempting to assimilate all ethnic minorities. In the absence of religious differences they have succeeded. The Kurdish language is not officially used and during censuses the Kurds have been recorded as Azerbaijanis.