Doctor of Economics, professor of labor and social protection department Russian academy of national economy and government service at the President of the Russian Federation Moscow, Russia [email protected]
Abstract. For a long time the indigenous small peoples of the North have been in the interests of only ethnographers. But during the last two decades there was a considerable shift of the experts’ interests towards the problems of development of the traditional economy, demography, health of northern people that is connected, first of all, with the intensive industrial development of the North and its negative consequences for the indigenous population. Keywords: Indigenous peoples of the North, state support, community, market economy, social and economic development.