The article analyzes the demographic dynamics and settlement communities in the North Caucasus regions and territories of the South of Russia in the post-Soviet period. Fixed basic forms, directions and scope of migration, as well as gender and age structure of some communities. Understands the complexity of the interaction of host South Russian ethno-cultural communities and the North Caucasian diaspora, explores the peculiarities of "Slav-North Caucasus" etnokonfliktnogo capacity in urban areas and rural regions of the South of Russia. Outlines possible prospects of development of the North Caucasian communities within the "Russian dance" South macro-region
Keywords: North Caucasian diaspora, South Russia, population distribution strategies, migration activity,ethnocentric potential
The article analyzes the population dynamics, habitat settlement in the Rostov region of Ukrainians and Armenians, representing two major regional diaspora. We study their complex demographic and spatial relationship in the post-war decades, and in the post-Soviet period. The reasons rapidly declining regional Ukrainian community in the late twentieth century - beginning of the XXI century. Predicted the most likely scenario, the demographic dynamics of the two diasporas in the coming decades, examines the role in this process of modern Ukrainian crisis caused by the influx within the scope of large numbers of refugees.
Keywords: Ukrainians and Armenians, regional communities, and the number of resettlement, ethno-cultural structure of the Diaspora