, NATIONAL BURYAT IDENTITY OF YOUTH // BSU bulletin. Education. Personality. Society. - 2016. №3. . - С. 40-49.

NATIONAL BURYAT IDENTITY OF YOUTH

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Modern Buryat culture, which is forming Buryat identity, now could be influenced by many factors. There are some factors, such as moving from villages to cities, knowledge of the Buryat language, following to traditions and customs, identity and self-awareness as buriat. Modernity imposes new installations, which are forming a new Buryat identi- ty. This research belong to identify the role of knowledge and use of the Buryat lan- guage and following the Buryat traditions and customs in the formation of the Buryat national identity; differences in substantive content and methods of construction of the Buryat national identity in different types of settlements and moved to other regions of Russia, such as Novosibirsk; and it was detected image representative of the Buryat na- tionality. It wasbased oninterviews with Buryat students from Ulan-Ude and Novosi- birsk city.

national identity, the Buryat ethnos, modern.