ALTAI ON THE PAGES OF THE “CHUVASH ENCYCLOPEDIA”

As part of the study of the history and ethno-cultural development of the Chuvash diaspora in Altai, biographical sections of the national-regional “Chuvash Encyclopedia” are analyzed in order to identify the volume in which personalities associated with Altai are represented in them. The persons included in the encyclopedia are systematized both by profession and by the degree of mutual influence of the Altai and Chuvash parts of their biographies. The methods used in the study (historicism, biographical, descriptive) make it possible to identify the peculiarities of social and national groups, to include individual destinies in the context of the country’s history.