Basing on statistical sources and record keeping documents, the article studies a social structure of the Turkis language population, determining numerical characteristics of three basic groups — local Tartars, Bukhara Tartars, Volga and Ural Tartars, and their correlation, specifying changes in the migration of Siberian Tartars during late XVIII — XIX c.

The article gives a description of spirits the masters of the space «developed» by man (dwelling place and dependencies) with the Barabino Tartars in the second third of XX — early XXI c. The main source for writing this work was field data from the archives of Museum of archaeology and ethnography, Omsk State university named after Dostoyevsky; and Museum of Siberian Peoples, Omsk branch of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian division of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The article analyzes practice of intercultural cooperation between the Orthodox Russians and Moslem Kazakhs from the upper part of the Low Irtysh basin during XIX — early XX c., determining a role of state and Russian Orthodox Church in coordinating these processes.

The article considers reasons of popularity of Kök börü equestrian-sport game in Altai Republic and ways of its adaptation to a regional modern game culture, as well as the fundamentals of the worldview of Altai people, which it is developing. It also describes etymology of «Kök börü» name, a special attitude to the wolf regarded as a totem-ancestor, and traditions of worshipping the horse. The author comes to a conclusion of the significance of Kök börü game for ethnic consolidation of Altai people, making contacts and conjugal relations among representatives of different seok-kins.

By the example of Kalmyks deported to Omsk and Tyumen Oblast, subject to investigation being the influence of regime of special commandant’s office upon socialization of representatives of a separate ethnic group. Basing on a broad circle of sources, the author shows that the enforced character of their socialization, together with administrative barriers, resulted in failure of Kalmyks’ self-identification, creating threat to the very existence of that ethnic group.

For the first time, data of a regional census in Yamal region in 1932–1933 was introduced into scientific circulation, considering its program, details of taking, and results. Under taking the census by means of local administrative and economic organizations in the period when a conflict between Nenets and Russians in Yamal was about to happen, it became clear that there was a suspicious attitude towards the census on the part of the nomads. It is determined that during the census they registered over half the Yamal regional population. The data was confirmed by that of subsequent censuses, demonstrating predominance of minor and medium reindeer households, together with the fact that the native population was principally occupied by fishing in the South, and by reindeer breeding in the North of Yamal where the biggest reindeer herds and rich reindeer breeders were concentrated.