Forms of interethnic interaction in the Ufa district in the second half of the 17th - early 18th centuries. (based on materials of clerical work in the prikaz)

Ufa county of the second half of the XVII - early XVIII centuries - The territory is open for migration flows from all sides of the world. In many respects, the ethnic and religious diversity of the region was due to the voluntary nature of the Russian citizenship of the Bashkirs. For almost two centuries, the Bashkirs managed to maintain tribal self-government, patrimonial land tenure and freedom of religion in inviolability. In addition, the Ufa district was not included in the all-Russian system of protecting the southern borders of the state. Protection of the southeastern border was entrusted to the structures of the Bashkir militia. As a result, by the beginning of the XVIII century. 11 ethnic groups belonging to the Turkic, Mongolian, Finno-Ugric, Slavic language families professing Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and paganism settled peacefully and not quite peacefully on Bashkir lands. Households were just as diverse: from hunting and gathering, from classical nomadic and semi-nomadic farming to developed forms of agriculture...