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Аннотация:To be clear, one can imagine the situation when one team of footballers “Spartak “ Moscow are going to play field, they are Artem Rebrov, Jano Ananidze, Yura Movsisyan, Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, Vladimir Granat, Sergey Parshivlyuk and others. There are differences in their appearance, though very little. They all were born in the same country – the Soviet Union. They all wear the same uniform, come to a football match by the same bus and prepare for the match in the same clubhouse.
Is there any difference among them? There certainly is. One of them is a goalkeeper, two of them are defenders, two of them are half-backs, one of them is a striker. Yes, indeed, these are their positions on the playing field. They are not the same age. These footballers are also of different ethnicities. Artem Rebrov is Russian, Jano Ananidze is Georgian, Yura Movsisyan is Armenian, Diniyar Bilyaletdinov is Tartar, Vladimir Granat is Buryat, Sergey Parshivlyuk is Ukrainian. They were brought up in the same country, but their families speak different languages, have different cultural traditions and customs, and profess different religions.
It is important to be precise when defining ethnicity and race in the Russian and Soviet context. According to one definition, ethnicity is determined as “historically settled on the territory a stable intergeneration aggregate of people having not only common traits but relatively stable culture features (including language) and mentality; they also have the consciousness of their unity and difference from other communities (self-consciousness) fixed in self determination (ethnicon)”. Ethnic groups in Russia are complex and have resulted from centuries of migration, the endurance of living in harsh climates and emergent identification with a region.