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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.

The action of a strong electric field on conjugated π-systems is studied within the method of full configuration interaction. The behavior of systems in the field is analyzed by means of the electron unpairing measure: the number N_eff of effectively unpaired electrons. For N_eff formal asymptotic rules are derived, which correspond to extreme values of the external field. Field induced biradicaloid π-states are studied in detail.