Ethnocultural processes in the territories inhabited by indigenous peoples of the Russian Arctic in the XXth – early XXIst century

Abstract

Using the example of Chokurdakh in the Allaikhovsky District of the Sakha Republic, the article presents an analysis of historical changes in the ethnocultural face of the territories inhabited by indigenous peoples of the North during the 20^th and the beginning of the 21^st century. The author describes the ethnocultural processes that took place in this area on different stages of its modern existence – before the start of large-scale Soviet modernization, during the period of active transport and industrial development, and after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The dynamics of these processes evolved from the virtual monopoly position of the Indigenous peoples of the North through the subsequent prevalence of assimilation and unification processes to the re-actualization of the positions of those components that are associated with the history and traditional culture of the aboriginal ethnic groups of the Russian Arctic.