According to ancient historians, in ancient Dioscuria there were 130 translators. The city, standing on the site of the present Sukhum, was a crossroads of cultures. Abkhazia, as the heiress of Dioscuria, has preserved its multinationality. In the republic there are many large and small communities, Orthodox churches and monasteries, a mosque, a church, a synagogue. Some communities retain their national customs, rituals, somewhere national identity is erased. For example, this happened to the Poles. The author of the project "Cultural diversity - the wealth of society" Rosita German is shooting a series of short films about the national communities of Abkhazia. At the premiere of one of them, she told that the idea of ​​a film about the Poles resulted in a film about Catholics.

The Muslim community of Abkhazia is increasing at the expense of people returning to the country. During the five years of the repatriation program, which is approximately four hundred families. The Jewish community in Abkhazia is not numerous. Its head Alexander Malis says that on holidays rarely more than two dozen people gather. "First of all, this happens for the simple reason that there are not a lot of Jews left in Abkhazia," says the cantor of the Sukhum synagogue, Igor (Iosif) Chernyak. Also, the community of Germans is not numerous in Abkhazia, although they also have their own Lutheran church. According to the community activist Nellie Leis, mostly elderly people go to her. According to Rosita German, the rise of national communities in Abkhazia was in 2011, when the government handed over the Lutheran and Catholic churches to the communities. Now, there is a decline in the activities of the national communities. But this applies to small communities. Traditionally, numerous Russians, Greeks, Armenians do not lose their national identity. The World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development has its history since 2003. The UN General Assembly established it as a reminder of the positive role of cultural diversity on the planet.