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The paper considers the Polish exiles’ living conditions as reflected in their memoires. The author analyzes factors that influenced the exiles’ attitudes towards Siberia; studies how their origin, profession, family status affected their living conditions and relations with local population. Special attention is paid to those Poles who returned to Siberia or stayed there after completion of sentence.

The paper deals with the Polish military traveler M. Lepeckiy’s impressions from his journey to Siberia in 1933 and 1936. The traveler’s evaluation of the ongoing changes is presented along with his descriptions of the city of Novosibirsk as contrasted with other Siberian cities.

The paper considers the Tobolsk period of life and activities of an outstanding Russian statesman V.A. Artsimovich, whose “Description of the journey to Siberian land” is introduced into the scientific use. It is shown how his personal impressions from the journey to the North of the Tobolsk governorate influenced his administrative activities.

The article is devoted to the literary and scientific heritage of A.K. Ordynskiy (1830 – 1915). He was a writer and ethnographer, very popular in Siberia in the late XIX - early XX centuries, but forgotten nowadays. Ordynskiy’s literary activity characterizes the Siberian-Polish cultural relations.

The article describes the group of prisoners-of-war from the Polish 5 ^th Rifle Division who lived in the Minusinsk Uyezd in the early 1920s. The group of Polish captives was characterized by social, cultural and political heterogeneity given the fact that in the pre-war period they belonged to three different countries – Austria-Hungary, Germany and Russian empire. The author analyzes educational level, social and professional status of representatives of this group; shows how their labour was used in the regional economy.

The article is devoted to the characteristics of the present stage of the Siberian-Polish academic interaction in historical science. New methodological models in the context of mental history allow expanding the boundaries of human knowledge. The author undertakes analysis of the Soviet scientifi c heritage, reveals a tendency of transition to the new methodological positions, identifies relevant research areas.

The paper determines the level of functionality of citations and titles in the political and social essays of Russian writers in the XVI century in order to reveal specifics of the authors’ styles.

The article reveals factors of creation and existence of hagiography monuments of the Modern Age: specifics of canonization of saints in the Modern Age; the impact of Peter the Great’s «Spiritual Regulation» as a document that determined the contents of hagiographic literature; the role of historical science in transformation of hagiographic literature; specifics of studying hagiographical monuments of the Modern Age.

The article is devoted to the function of Old Russian testament genre in the hagiographical writings. The peculiarities of testaments are analyzed, their role in hagiographic narrations is defi ned. Testaments of famous clerical hierarchs of the XIV– XVII centuries attached to their biographies are used as the material of research.

The aim of this article is to find interrelation between the text and illustrations in “Ascetical Homilies” of Saint Isaac of Syria, the manuscript dated from the end of XIX century and illustrated by an Ural-Siberian Old-Believer artist. The author describes illustrations, shows how they are related to the texts provided with the miniature paintings; comes to conclusion that these paintings reflect interrelations within the system “monk – the outside world” as well as main monk practices (pure prayer, withdrawal into silence, etc.).

The author studies forewords to the Old-believers’ collected works coming to conclusion that defenders of the Old Rite used these prefaces in order to achieve the integrity of the text and help the reader adequately perceive the works included in these collections or fragments from the Holy Writ or patristic writings.

The article considers the sources of cosmogonical and historical ideas of the Tumen Old-Believer I.R. Legostaev. The author comes to conclusion that Legostaev’s narration of the Creation of the World was based on the introductory texts of the Russian Chronograph of 1620.

In the paper the documents containing key information about the second phase of the political crisis of the Provisional Siberian Government in September 1918 are introduced into the scientifi c circulation.

The article analyzes reasons for publication and distribution of illegal national and religious literature under the conditions of deportation of Soviet citizens in the 1940s - 1950s. It characterizes subject areas and forms of existence of uncensored works in the Siberian and Far Eastern region.

The article highlights the transformation of children’s publishing in Siberia and the Far East in the fi rst post-Soviet decade, identifies its main stages. Structural changes in the repertoire of children’s books are characterized. The peculiarities of the children’s books in certain areas of the region are revealed. The author emphasizes the need for every kind of assistance to the regional leaders of the book industry in the field of children’s literature publication.

The article is devoted to the nature and specifics of scientific schools of bibliography and librarianship, defining their place in maintaining a professional level of library science. It characterizes methods in researching cognitive and social communications in these sciences, underlying the interactions of scientists.

The article is devoted to the characteristics of the Surgut population in the XIX – early XX centuries as a local ethnographic group of Russians. Formation of this group is studied from the perspective of frontier theory as interpreted by M.V. Shilovskiy. Based on the contemporary descriptions the author reveals anthropological, linguistic and household features of Surgut dwellers.

The paper deals with traditional ways of natural disaster prevention practiced by the Russian peasants in Siberia in the late XIX – early XX centuries. Based on the archival and published data as well as the author’s field work materials the article examines various methods used by the peasant commune for rainmaking, ceasing of drought, protecting crops from thunderstorm, hail and other calamities. Special attention to the traditional remedies against mass epidemics and epizootics is paid.

The paper is devoted to designation problem of status symbolism in the traditional set of female adornment. Based on the materials of the Turkic peoples of the Sayan-Altai the author creates a marking scheme of a woman’s age and gender status through various combinations of adornments; shows their role in the process of woman’s transition from one age group into another, as well as in the situation of changing family status. Status symbolism of adornments has remained in the Turkic cultures of the Sayan-Altai region up to the present time.

The paper describes contemporary manufacturing of the artistic felt carpets by Kazakhs and characterizes this practice fr om the viewpoint of unity of traditions and innovations. On the basis of the
eld studies data, the authors de
ne the main trends in development of this kind of handicrafts in Kazakhstan and in a wider perspective – among the Kazakh people living outside the country (diaspora). Analysis of the conditions of felt carpet production in various districts of Kazakhstan, Altai, Mongolia and West Siberia has shown that production of homemade felt carpets was characterized by the local-speci
c variations in shape, color and ornamental patterns. Currently, this individual production has been changing into semi-industrial handicraft production wh ere traditions and author’s innovations merge.

This paper is focused on analysis of the main features of sociocultural life in small towns of Tashkent oblast in the post-Soviet period. The object of research is population of Angren, its subject – main characteristics of Russian-speaking commune during the post-Soviet period and problems of its adaptation to the social and political life in Uzbekistan. While studying this group the author comes to conclusion that the Russian-speaking population, even being a minority, continues to play a significant role in the sociocultural life in the cities of Tashkent oblast.

The early XXI century is marked by actualization of relationships between diasporas, host and home countries. This article reviews that kind of relationships through the example of Korean Russians. Korean Russians have had a big experience of transnational activity, they have been living in Russia for a long time, and during the last decade they have been participating in diasporic strategies of Republic of Korea. This paper examines these strategies of transnational relationships with the home country.

The paper characterizes an ideal image of a missionary priest in Siberia, which was constructed on pages of the religious orthodox periodical press. Its studying allowed to understand what qualities a missionary priest acting in Siberia had to possess and which goals could be achieved owing to those qualities. The ideal constructed by the orthodox periodical press not always coincided with reality, but it impelled a missionary priest to long for self-perfection necessary for his successful activity.

Notions of the sacred significance of mountain peaks and their “inhabitants”, mountain spirits, are one of the best preserved parts Khakassian traditional culture. Data on more than three hundred religious objects connected with the worship of mountains in Khakassia have survived to the present day. One of the main problems connected with protection of the objects of religious worship is their unclear legal status in the regional legislation of Khakassia. However, the open-air museums of Khakassia have accumulated positive experience in the sphere of museumification of religious objects of worship. The paper deals with analysis of these practicies. Specific character of these practices lies in the fact that preservation and actualization of such objects is a contributing factor to the ethnic group’s consolidation of, the incentive to strengthen its ideology.

The article traces formation of critical approach to studying the Russian chronicles in the XVIII - 1 ^st half of the XIX Century)

The article considers the history of edition of printed materials by the Left-wing radical political organizations in Russia in the last decade XX – the first decade of the XXI century is considered. It highlights specifics of contents and forms of release of the ultra-communist press in the modern context.

The article considers activities of Russia’s oldest bookselling enterprise - Krasnoyarsk library collector during the post-Soviet period (1991–2012). It describes the history of successful survival of the former socialist enterprise (one of the Krasnoyarsk Regional Bookstore’s units) in the transition to the market economy.