КАК ИНСТРУМЕНТ САМОИДЕНТИФИКАЦИИ Наталья Дмитриевна Зольникова, д-р ист. наук, главный научный сотрудник, Институт истории СО РАН, РФ, 630090, Новосибирск, ул. <...> Николаева, 8, e-mail: nnpokrov@gmail.com В статье рассматривается процесс накопления новаций в толкованиях нижнеенисейскими староверами признаков конца света, делается попытка определить критический уровень этих новаций для принятия решения отдельным полемистом или авторитетной общиной об их каноничности или еретичности, т.е. принадлежности к «своим» или «чужим». <...> Второй способ – изложение эсхатологической теории, далекой от классических образцов, погибшего в сталинском лагере игумена тайных старообрядческих скитов о. <...> ZOLNIKOVA, ESCHATOLOGICAL DISPUTES OF THE CHASOVENNYYE OLD-BELIEVERS IN THE LAST THIRD OF THE XX CENTURY AS AN INSTRUMENT OF SELF-IDENTIFICATION Natalya D. Zolnikova, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Chief Researcher, Institute of History SB RAS, 8, Nikolaeva Str., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia, e-mail: nnpokrov@gmail.com The article considers mechanism of accumulation of novelties in interpretation of signs of the Day of Judgment made by the Old-Believers from the lower reaches of the Yenisey River; it also attempts at determining when a high threshold of such novelties was reached letting individual polemicists or authoritative communities make a decision about their canonicity or heterodoxy. <...> Symeon, hegumen of a skete, who died in 1954 in one of the concentration camps and was regarded as a saint by the Chasovennye (Chapeliers) Old-Believers; works of an outstanding popular writer A.G. <...> Self-identifi cation of the Chasovennye theologists as “true Christians” further included referring to loyalty to the teaching of Fr. <...> Murachev’s new scenario of Judgment Day moved so much away from the original concept that it came close to the line where “ours” turns into “alien” <...>