History of Science and Engineering Annotation << Back Problems of ethnic and religious identity of karachais and balkars: sources and the present F.R. Dzhantueva The object of research in the article is religious and ethnic identity of karachais and balkars. In the modern Russian society the transformation in public, social and economic spheres that is begining to show have caused splash in ethnic consciousness. For today in the theory of ethnos there is no accurate definition of structure of ethnic consciousness. The ethnic consciousness is the concept of wider plan presented by wider identification. The identification which includes, except actually ethnic, other forms which correspond to actually existing objects of a polymorphic ethnic reality: territorial, cultural, language, religious, ceremonial, racial, anthropological, psychological and other. Key words: identity, religion, self-awareness, karachais, balkars Phone: (88662) 42-67-29