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An active Russian colonization of Siberian lands took place in the late XVI - early XVII centuries. The processes of adaptation to new conditions at various levels, including the level of the worldview, occurred. In order to understand the role of symbols and signs in the worldview of immigrants who came from the European part of the country to Siberia, the author sets a goal to identify and analyze the work of modern researchers in various humanitarian disciplines studying this topic. To achieve the goal, the author studied foreign and domestic publications of the XX-XXI centuries, having undertaken a continuous review of publications. The depth of the historiographic survey covered the first half of the 1950s with single excursions to the earlier period. The author revealed more than two thousand works written by more than two hundred and fifty researchers, the closest of which to the study are considered in the article. The analysis showed that studies on the role of symbols and signs in Siberia during the XVI-XVIII centuries in the framework of historical disciplines, art criticism, history of architecture were carried on by domestic scientists. They researched specific symbols and signs, both authentic and borrowed, including signs of social status, charms and magic symbols and signs, symbols of historical realities, architectural Orthodox symbols, iconography, and symbols associated with Orthodoxy and the affirmation of the role of state and government. In studying the role of symbols and signs in the worldview of established communities and immigrants, the theoretical works of domestic and foreign researchers in the field of sociology and psychology stand apart. They are indirectly related to investigating the role of symbols and signs in Siberia, but can be used as a methodological basis. There are no special theoretical and methodological works based on Siberian materials from the late XVI - early XVIII centuries, as well as there is no comprehensive generalizing study of dynamics in the symbolic sphere of the migration community evidently for Russians in Siberia.