Humanities & Social Sciences 4 (2016 9) 986-993 ~ ~ ~ УДК 316.334.56 The City of Sevastopol as Part of Russia: Problems of Adaptation and Possibilities of Socio-Political Development (Based on Qualitative Research Materials) Kirill V. Podyachev* Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences 24/35, Krzhizhanovsky Str., Building 5, Moscow, 117218, Russia Received 22.01.2016, received in revised form 10.02.2016, accepted 28.03.2016 Based on the data obtained during a fi eld survey in June 2015, the article focuses on a number of socio-political problems the city of Sevastopol faced after its accession to the Russian Federation. <...> The author provides examples of the diffi culties that arose in the process of Sevastopol citizens’ adaptation to a new institutional environment. <...> These are the problems of split in managerial elite, party system instability, local self-government disruption, rejection of a set of educational innovations by the pedagogical community, entrepreneurs’ discontent, etc. <...> At the same time the article shows that a key feature of Sevastopol was not affected in the course of adaptation, the feature being a strong corporate spirit and values resulting from pride for the city’s heroic history. <...> Thus, reunifi cation of Sevastopol with Russia led to signifi cant institutional changes, which caused some socio-economic diffi culties, but all these transformations did not affect the value system of Sevastopol, and they even strengthened it in fact. <...> So, there is every reason to believe that adaptation diffi culties will be overcome, and, the policy being reasonable, further development of Sevastopol can be quite successful. <...> The Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol, new subjects of the Russian Federation, have been in the focus of attention since March 2014. <...> At fi rst, when the media space faced the clash between the euphoria of the “Russian spring”, on the one hand, and a hysterical propaganda of the Ukrainian © Siberian Federal University. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: kirvik@bk.ru # 986 # and European media, on the other hand, the abundance of unverifi ed information, rumors, propaganda piping made it extremely diffi cult to analyze the events in these regions. <...> Today, after the media noise has died down, and the events in Syria being more urgent, the issue of Crimea is overshadowed on the global agenda. <...> The City <...>