Russian and Siberian Regional Identity: Commonalities and Differences

  • Abstract:

    The results of 2010 Russian national census have demonstrated that the number of people who refer to themselves as ‘Sibiryak’ (a person who belongs to the respective Russian regional subculture or, more broadly, the natives of Siberia whatever their ethnic origin) is growing. In 2002 only 10 respondents identified themselves this way, while eight years later the number was more than 400 times as many (4116 people). Traditionally, features that are ascribed to this Russian ethnographic group or subculture are resilience and good health, both due to severe climate. The Russian language reflects these beliefs in set expressions such as ‘sibirskyi kharacter’ (Siberian character) and ‘sibirskoye zdorovye’ (Siberian health’). The aim of the research to be presented is to single out those features of regional identity that can be distinguished on the basis of a free and directed associative experiments (a relatively new research method on the brink of linguistics and cultural studies) carried out among undergraduate and graduate students of Novosibirsk State University.

 

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