Humanities & Social Sciences 1 (2016 9) 68-78 ~ ~ ~ УДК 304.444 Modern Concepts of Cultural Sociodynamics in the Context of Research of the Socio-Cultural Environment of the Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East Natalia P. Koptseva* Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia Received 23.04.2015, received in revised form 07.07.2015, accepted 19.10.2015 The article reveal the methodological opportunities of the modern concepts of sociodynamics of culture of A. Moles, W. Weidlich, G.M. McLuhan, M. Castells for modelling and predicting genesis of the socio-cultural space of the indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East. <...> The unique cultural phenomena of these ethno-cultural groups will fi nd a new life with the use of the modern information technologies. <...> Introduction In 2006, Siberian Federal University set up the Chair for Cultural Studies and carried out the fi rst admission of students in the “Cultural studies” speciality, in 2007 – in the degree program of “Cultural Studies”. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: decanka@mail.ru # 68 # studies are important in relation to how they can be applied and used in various forms of sociocultural practices. <...> For the Krasnoyarsk Territory the socio-cultural development of its Northern territories inhabited by the indigenous peoples of the North and Siberia is of special importance. <...> In the modern world science the Northern territories located above the Arctic Circle, where the indigenous peoples live, are called “circumpolar Natalia P. Koptseva. <...> The Russian Federation has the most extensive circumpolar territories in the world. <...> A cultural space of these areas is unique and has special sociodynamics. <...> Scientists and graduate students studying at the Chair for Cultural Studies, Siberian Federal University , have been doing a great deal of theoretical and applied work related to the study of this cultural space for several years already. <...> The culturologists organized and held 6 complex ethno-cultural expeditions to the places of compact settlement of the indigenous peoples of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and brought unique materials that are still being processed and the results of which are being published in scientifi c journals and collective monographs. <...> Peoples of the circumpolar territories are the study object of almost all the modern humanities and social sciences: philosophy, cultural anthropology <...>