Urals Cossacks of Central Asia: Way of Life in Religion in the History and in the Present
The preservation and transformation of identity and the confessional originality in a specific ethno-local population is being analyzed on the basis of a field research that has been carried out among the decedents of the Urals Cossacks Old believers in Karakalpakia (Uzbekistan), the Zzhambyl Region (Kazakhstan), and the Volgograd and Astrakhan Region (Russia).