To the problem of studying of ethnic essence of identity

The author of the article in the digression starts with the general concept of identity that was defined in a science by Zigmund Freud. Considering ethnic identity as one of the kinds of identity, connected with the ethnic identity of the person, it defines it as comprehension of the accessory to the certain ethnos by the person. In the structure of ethnic identity the author allocates and shortly considers two its cores of a component - cognitive and affective.