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
20th and the beginning of the 21st 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.

Keywords:

Arctic, Yakutia, indigenous peoples of the North, ethnocultural
processes, Chokurdakh village