В статье на основе привлечения архивных данных и полевых материалов реконструированы основные этапы этнической истории, особенности расселения, хозяйства и культуры субэтнической группы брагатских эвенков, проживающих в настоящее время на территории Мирнинского района Республики Саха (Якутия). Особое внимание уделено современным социокультурным процессам, происходящим в среде изучаемой группы под влиянием интенсивного индустриального освоения региона; проблемам сохранения и возрождения их традиционной культуры. Рассмотрены исторические, политические и экономические аспекты определения их правового статуса, вопросы этнической консолидации и мобилизации.
The article is the first to reconstruct the ethnic history of the Evenks of the Bragat clan, currently living in the Mirninsky district of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The aim of the article is to identify the ethno-cultural characteristics and their preservation in modern conditions of this subethnic group of the northern Evenks. The tasks of the article are to consider the concepts of their origin; to identify the area of their settlement and demographic processes during the 17th – 21st centuries; to study the features of traditional farming methods and ethnic culture, their transformation in the 20th century under the in fluence of intensive industrial development; to analyze modern problems of preservation and development of this group of the Evenk people. Based on the archival data of the 18th – 20th centuries and field materials, the author reconstructed the main stages of the ethnic history, administrative reorganizations, changes in the legal status, transformations of the economic and socio-cultural systems of the Bragat Evenks; modern processes that in fluenced the emergence of new social and socio-political factors that have an intensive impact on the Bragat Evenks are analyzed. It is concluded that, on the one hand, the industrial development of the region serves as a certain motivation for the aborigines to improve the quality of education, self-realization and self-affirmation of the individual, and improve their lifestyle. On the other hand, in the context of intensive industrial development, the invasion of mining companies.