Dynamics of ethnic identity Ukrainians in Molchanovsky District of Tomsk region in 1950-1970-ies (According to the household books)

In the article the process of changing ethnic identity is analyzed on the basis of household registers data, which occurred in post-reform settlers from the Ukraine who settled in Molchanovsky District Tomsk Oblast. We consider the composition of the surnames of Ukrainians living in the village The Bolshoy Tatosh, Tun-gusovo and Kolbinka in the period from 1940 to 1970-ies. It is in this period there was the change of ethnic identity from a native to Russian. The dynamics is revealed in the structure of families, their ethnic composition. There was preservation of the traditional family, consisting of three generations along with by nuclear families until the middle of the 1950s; after this period families consisting of parents and children became dominant. Variants multiethnic families with family members identify themselves Ukrainians are defined. The process for dilution of the ethnic identity of Ukrainians at the family level, based on the analysis of surnames in the household registers are disclosed. The highest proportion of mixed families accounted for the Ukrainian-Russian, were the next largest Ukrainian-Belarusian, several Ukrainian-Polish families were registered. During the 1950-1960-ies. there is a decrease in the number of families with Ukrainian component, including due to the change of Ukrainian identity into Russian. At the 1970s only a few people recorded the Ukrainians. However, the reverse is true: the families mainly with typical Ukrainian surnames, previously defined themselves Russian, began to be written by Ukrainians since 1958. Based on a comparison of data of Passport Tungusovskiy territorial district and of the household registers data there was revealed that some descendants of the first settlers who founded the Ukrainian village the Bolshoy Tatosh, indicated himself Russian throughout this period and of other surnames found among Russian as well and among Ukrainians. It is emphasized the role of the transformation that occurred in the area of family and marriage: the disappearance of traditional families with three generation members and an increase in the Ukrainian-Russian marriages. There bidirectional drift of ethnic identity: Ukrainian - Russian and Russian - Ukrainian.

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