History of Science and Engineering Annotation << Back The Old Believers of Tuva: a Half-Century in the Land of Promise Tatarintseva M.P. Old Believers in Tuvais a normal phenomenon, they were the pioneers at the end of the XIX century seeking for the permanent residence in Uriankhai region that had been completely unknownto the Russian people searching for free land and independence from secular and ecclesiastical authorities. Hardworking and enterprising, they were able to adapt to new conditions, to establish relations with local authorities, to settle in compact in villages and towns founded by them, to have strong self-suffi cient farms. Despite the distance from the metropolis and semi-subsistence farming, their aspiration to isolation from «the world», they managed to keep the old faith and to educate the next generations in it, to arrange the differences among some of its tendencies, to consolidate and survive under aggressive atheist state policy in the Soviet era. It is thanks to «closure» of Old Believers thatarchaic relic features of traditional Russian culture and lifecould be preserved in their everyday and spiritual culture. Keywords: migration in search of Belovodye; economic self-suffi ciency; strength of old faith; opposition to onslaught of atheism; preservation of old Russian culture. Contacts: Е-mail: margotatar@mail.ru Pp. 51-56.