On some peculiarities of the formation of regional identity of KHMAO-Ugra and the political competition for the legal political status of the Autonomous Okrug in the 1990s (on the materials of the periodicals of the Tyumen Region)

the problematics of regional identity formation in Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Ugra is a multifaceted aspect of the history of the region's development in the context of its formation under the prism of constructing and forming a regional «identity». Within the framework of the USSR collapse and the formation of a new form of statehood several processes took place: centrifugal processes, the formation of new relations «centre – regions» and new approaches in national policy. The struggle for legal personality in the 1990s, which took place in the regions, including the «Tyumen North», had a specific character due to political, social, climatic and legal peculiarities. Each of the regions fought for its own: it was important for the regional authorities to preserve the integrity of the region, the right to influence socio-economic processes in the autonomous districts, and the receipt and distribution of oil and gas rents. In the ethnic autonomies, against the background of aggravated ecological, economic problems and the all-union ethno-political situation, there was a struggle for their full political subjectivity and independence, for obtaining the status of a full-fledged actor of the federation. This article attempts to characterise the socio-political events that took place during the collapse of the Soviet state and the formation of the new Russian statehood, to give an assessment of some socio-political events and trends that determined the process of regional identity formation, the formation of the Ugra legal personality during the 1990s. The author pays special attention to the factors that had a significant impact on the formation of modern Ugra society, its identity, as well as the history of relations between the authorities of Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug-Ugra and Tyumen region in the context of delimitation of powers (authority) in the above period.

regional identity, Ugra identity, treaty of Federation, regional history, complex subject, factors of identity formation