Formation of organizational structures and staffing of archaeological research in the Khanty-Mansiysk autonomous okrug in the early 1990s

In their cultural policy, public authorities are guided by public demand. At the same time, the public demand is always formulated by the professional community. In the absence of a clearly formulated public demand, the implementation of policies is often formal, and often does not find its implementation at all. This can be clearly seen in the example of the organization of the protection and study of archaeological sites at the regional level. Sovereignty of the RSFSR was adopted, to the adoption of the regional law on the preservation and use of the historical and cultural heritage of the Khanty–Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug in 1997. Before the adoption of the Constitution of the Russian Federation in 1993, the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug did not have all the rights of a subject and did not have its own regional authorities responsible for the protection of cultural heritage. A feature of the historical and cultural heritage of Ugra is the significant predominance of archaeological and ethnocultural sites over monuments of architecture and monumental art, archaeological sites account for 94% of their total number. The purpose of the study based on archival materials is to trace the influence of the humanitarian community of professional archaeologists, representatives of the public demand for the preservation of cultural heritage, on the relationship of society with local governments and on the emergence of regional government bodies of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug in the period 1990–1997.