ETHNIC PROCESSES AMONG RUSSIANS: BASED ON THE MATERIALS OF THE NEWSPAPER "UFA PROVINCIAL VEDOMOSTI"

The relevance of the work lies in the demand for materials characterizing the peoples of the Southern Urals and the Urals in the XIX century to reconstruct the history and culture of the region. The purpose of the article is to identify ethnographic materials about the Russian population, which over the past centuries formed the demographic majority and largely determined the ethnic processes in the region. The method of research is a historical and comparative analysis of information about the Russian population of the past centuries with the field materials of the author of the article collected in recent decades. It is revealed that the materials of V.S. Russian Russians of the Zlatoust district of Ufa province, immigrants from Kungursky district of Perm province, that is, representatives of the North Russian ethno-cultural tradition. M.V. Kolesnikov in the late 1880s described the customs and customs of the Russian population of Belebeyevsky and Ufa counties, whose ethnic culture formed by the fusion of traditions of immigrants from different provinces of Russia, especially the Central Russian strip, and interaction with local peoples. Priest K. Yevlantiev in 1878 described the economic activities of the Belebeyevsky district, and the priest M.V. Burdukov in 1905 - the Menzelinsky district of the Ufa province. Their materials allow us to study the process of adaptation of the Russian population to local conditions. Since the 1840s, the newspaper has published information about folk and religious holidays held in villages and cities, where representatives of different ethnic groups, estates, confessions gathered. In the 1860s - 1870s, R.G. Ignatiev presented information about the days of Semik, Trinity, Annunciation, St. George's Day, which were special for the peasants of the Ufa province. Thus, the newspaper's materials provide a variety of information on the ethnic history, economic activity, material and spiritual culture of the Russian population of different counties, their regional features in chronological frames from the 1840s to 1905, ethnocultural processes in the region. Field studies show the preservation of some customs in villages remote from the centers of urbanization.