Based on the materials of field research of ethnolocal communities of Tatars living compactly in rural areas of the Novosibirsk region the features of their economic adaptation to the processes of social modernization are considered. The characteristics of the main elements of the modern life support system are given, and the regularities of its transformation are revealed. It is concluded that the basic principle of formation of life support systems in rural ethno-local communities of Tatars

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... the present stage is the diversification of economic practices. It manifests itself as a combination of the maximum number of available modern and traditional practices, which allows the community to adapt to regularly changing conditions. At the same time, the entire structure of economic practices is in the process of continuous transformation.