Ossetians. 3rd edition, stereotypical

The monograph is devoted to Ossetians - the people who speaks in one of the languages ​​of the Iranian group of the Indo -European language family and lives in the very center of the Caucasus, on both sides of the main Caucasian ridge: in the Republic of North Ossetia - Alania (Russian Federation) and the Republic of South Ossetia, and Also in other regions of Russia and the world.

The book contains information about the natural-geographical habitat of Ossetians, their ethnogenesis and ethnic history, economic activity, material and spiritual culture. The author’s collective is highlighted issues that reveal the specifics of the public and family life of the people, calendar holidays and rites, folk beliefs. Particular attention is paid to the wealth of folklore heritage, folk crafts and art, traditions of education and socio -contrivation. The nature and direction of sociocultural processes in modern Ossetian society are analyzed, a characteristic of Ossetian diasporas in the world is given, a review of political events in Ossetia at the turn of the XX-XXI centuries is presented for ethnologists, historians and a wide circle of readers.