Specificities of the Urban Identity of Industrial City Residents in the Southern Urals (Based on the Materials of a Mass Survey)

The research deals with the comprehension of urban identity. On the one hand, this phenomenon is understood as a set of authentic features and characteristics (inherent in a particular city) that perform an attributive function and reveal the specificity of the phenomenon. On the other hand, urban identity is considered as both the process and result of a particular persons identification with the city, which is associated with an acceptance of the local identity and is accompanied by an emotional self-inclusion into the realm of both object and symbolic urban environment. The main results of the research of the urban identity of residents of several industrial cities in the Southern Urals (such as Chelyabinsk, Magnitogorsk, Zlatoust, Ozyorsk, Karabash, and Satka), performed through a mass survey of 1050 people, are presented in the article.