Etnospołeczna sytuacja w regionach Południowej Syberii (Republika Ałtaju, Republika Tuwy, Republika Chakasji)

Abstrakt

This paper is based on the official statistical data and the fieldwork conducted in the years 2006–2008, processed and systematized by the author while carrying out the project entitled “Southern Siberian Peoples’ Problems with Adaptation to Living in the New Reality (the Republics of Altai, Tuva, and Khakassiya).” Th e research aimed at analyzing the extent of adaptation and the specificity of adaptational behavior of the basic ethnic groups inhabiting the above-mentioned republics in the new socioeconomic conditions. The most important objectives of the project included the research and analysis of the contemporary ethnosocial situation in Southern Siberia.