CAFES AS THE WAY OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIONS
The purpose of study is to make a review of national-oriented cafes and restaurants of the Far Eastern cities (Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Ussuriysk, Birobidzhan) and its role for diaspora, in order to search for the “Russian” style. This article gives the examples of typical interiors of Chinese, Japanese, Uzbek and Russian cafes and the analysis of establishments with different price categories. Authors examined cafes’ localization in the urban structure: the center and the periphery. The study contains the image of life is in a multi-ethnic space and some information about establishments, that have commercial potential: glamorous hookah bars as an alternative to hipster coffee houses.