Chronotope of the ideal city in the viewsof Russian and Armenian students of Volgograd universities
The subject of the study was the attitude to the city, and the ideal one, in which the respondents would like to live. The respondents were students of two ethnic groups: Russians and Armenians. All respondents live in Volgograd and study at Volgograd universities. The projective composition «Ideal City. The city where you want to live». The ambiguity of the name - whether it is an imaginary city, whether it is an existing and at the same time the best of the best, or a desired image of your city - should have provoked a dispersion of interpretations. Dispersion has been detected. For most Russians, the ideal city is a dream city, in reality it does not exist. In the texts of this group of «dreamers», images of a provincial city that preserve centuries-old historical traditions were found. The texts of the «realists» describe existing cities, including Volgograd. At the same time, the main content of the texts is a statement that the city deserves a better relationship between the authorities and citizens, a description of what should not be. In the texts of the Armenian respondents Volgograd as an ideal city is presented much more often. Unlike the texts of the Russian group, there is no irony, sarcasm and an assessment of his condition as hopeless. These respondents associate their life perspective with the city where they live and study. The Armenians, in contrast to the Russians, when representing the townspeople, often mention their cultural tolerance and religious faith. For most Russians, the urban environment appears to be secular. The results of the study make it possible to partially explain the motivational conditioning of two opposite tendencies: rejection and desire to leave, or, on the contrary, acceptance with the intention of building a life perspective while staying in Volgograd. The obtained materials can become the basis for hypotheses about the psychological reasons for migration or, on the contrary, rooting in the representatives of the studied ethnic groups.