Humanities & Social Sciences 10 (2016 9) 2342-2350 ~ ~ ~ УДК 37.376.7 Modern Nomadic Schools for Small-Numbered Indigenous Peoples in the North of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) Marina Kh. <...> Belianskaia* Museum of Ethnography 4/1 Inzhenernaia Str., St. Petersburg, 191186, Russia Received 25.03.2016, received in revised form 16.05.2016, accepted 24.08.2016 The article deals with nomadic schools, one of the school education options available for children of small-numbered indigenous nations resident in the North of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). <...> Supported by the government of the Republic, for several decades the research institutions of Yakutia have been developing and implementing the project of such schools, performing educating and upbringing functions without separating children from their family environment. <...> The fundamental purpose of such education facilities is to create a basis for preserving languages and cultures of the Northern nations, thereby continuing professional succession in reindeer breeding. <...> The author of the article analyzes functioning of such schools in the areas of concentrated settlement of nomadic and semi-nomadic peoples of the North and Arctic districts of Yakutia. <...> Keywords: nations of the North, reindeer breeding, hunting, fishery, nomadic school, Arctic territory, ethnic culture, preservation of language and culture, revival, youth of the North. <...> This article presents a research of one of the options of school education specifically developed for children of the Northern nations resident in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) (hereinafter abbreviated as RS (Y)), the nomadic school. <...> Today such education facilities are alternative to conventional secondary schools, being one of important stages of preserving languages and cultures of the small-numbered indigenous peoples of the North of the Republic. © Siberian Federal University. <...> However, the ethnic language use rate is decreasing year by year, raising the question of practicability of such measures as a whole. <...> In all diversity of ethnicities resident in the territory of the region, this group includes the Evenki, Evens, Dolgans, Yukagirs and Chukchi, constituting 0.3% of the population (Dannye FGS po RS (Y)…). <...> In the 1990-s it was common for many education experts to believe that ethnic language teaching at secondary education facilities may develop sustainable command of the language for the new generation of the Northern youth. <...> Such statement was based on the wishes articulated by school students and their parents; for this reason <...>