Results of social research on ethnic identity were presented by associate professors of SVFU Victoria Mikhaylova and Dekabrina Vinokurova at the scientific and practical conference in Kazan.

The conference which was in September of this year was devoted to positive experience of regulation of ethnosocial and ethnocultural processes in regions of Russia. Six sections worked: "Ethnic and national and civil identity in the Russian regions and in ethnosocial groups", "Interethnic interactions in regions", "Religious identity and the interfaith relations", "Ethnosocial and ethnolanguage processes in ethnic groups", "Migration. Problems of adaptation and integration of migrants".

"We presented results of the research conducted by "Philosophical Bases of Civil Culture" laboratory. Within three years, since 2011, we studied identity of the citizens living in an industrial zone of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). In total 1 649 people of different nationalities were interrogated. As revealed research, first of all citizens identify themselves as citizen of Russia, then – the representative of the republic and only in the third turn – the representative of the nationality", – the associate professor of all-university chair of North maintaining of NEFU Victoria Mikhaylova tells.

As revealed research, representatives of a certain nationality are made related by language, 72% of respondents admitted it. Among the problems arising in industrial zones, scientists noted negative reaction of local population to again arriving migrants, distinctions of civil, ethnic and regional identichnost. As Victoria Mikhaylova notes, these tendencies are characteristic for the Russian society in general.