The Principles of the Soviet National Policy of 1920-1970 in Relation to the Indigenous Small-Numbered Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East, Compactly Living on the Territory of the Evenki National (Autonomous) District

The article is devoted to the study of the peculiarities of the Soviet national policy in the regions of the North, Siberia and the Far East. An important issue is the consideration of the actions of the Soviet government in relation to indigenous small-numbered peoples. The radical change of the state system led to the development of a new system of interethnic relations, new systems of interaction with the indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East. New social technologies are being introduced in the fields of education, agriculture and national policy in general; local self- government bodies are being created. National policy is undergoing multiple changes, as is the history of the USSR as a whole. A special period is the war and post-war period. There are widespread changes in the economic life and culture of the peoples, their transition to a more sedentary lifestyle and, as a result, the loss of some skills of the traditional nomadic lifestyle.