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Саами Кольского уезда в XV I-XVIII вв. SUMMARY The Kola uezd Sami in 16th - 18th centuries: Model o f the social structure The target of this research is to reconstruct the social structure of the Kola uezd Sami in 16lh - 18,h centuries. This research in its base contains the systems approach and is interdisciplinary. The specified target is ethnological and it determines the circle of questions that the source give answers to. The sources, on the other hand, are historical and often contain mass material. Thus, the methods o f working with the sources are closer to the quantitative methods of social history and historical demography. In order to correctly understand the “answers of the sources” and in order to process them, we have also used methods of the source criticism and historical anthropology. The work with the spatial reflection o f the model was based on the methods of historical geography. The “source answers” that were obtained as the result have been interpreted using ethnological and sociological methods as was needed. The general method of the whole research was modeling. The first chapter entitled “The Sources” contains information about the sources used and the methods of their processing. It examined the state of the source base, analyzed the typology of the sources and their informational content. Different censuses were used as the main sources. Thus the chapter describes in detail all the census of the Kola uezd in the pertaining period. The second chapter entitled “The Methods and Procedures” offers methods o f building a model on the basis of empiric material extracted from the sources available: a complicated, open dynamic system and its social structure as the subsystem. The building material for the model was information, which was processed using mathematical logic. The set lies in the base o f any system description. Thus it was suggested to regard the Kola uezd Sami society as a dynamic set that possesses inside structure. As a matter of fact this inside structure constitutes the social Sami groups of this study. The types o f these institutes have been examined as the subset. A base containing 6627 records containing personal information has been created in order to process the information. As the main method o f modeling the censuses were used as the average crossection of the society. The creation of these links between the “crossections” (the censuses information) is, in fact, the modeling of the 259