Aleksey A. Koveshnikov Postgraduate student Khanty-Mansiysk clinical psychoneurological hospital Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia [email protected]
Abstract. More than half of the young people among the indigenous peoples of the KMAO – Ugra surveyed (fifty-five percent) are alcohol and tobacco exposed. Studied motivation of tobacco/alcohol consumption shows the most common socio-psychological motivations of youth. It proves a high contribution of social factors in the formation of addictive behavior among young people and the necessity of taking them into account when building prevention programs. 
Keywords: indigenous minority population of the North, alcohol, tobacco, pathological dependence.