Is the modern South of Russia polyethnic?
Journal: Regional nye issledovaniya
Year: 2024

The activation (and actualization) of transformational processes in Russian society against the background of significantly increased global turbulence initiates priority attention to spatial development, which, in turn, requires a more detailed and correct assessment of the ethnodemographic specifics of the territory. The article focuses on the modern features of the ethnic structure of the South of Russia (Southern and North Caucasian Federal Districts), which is ethnogeographically the most “