Social Mechanisms of Adaptation of the Population of the Border Region in the Conditions of New Territoriality

The population of the Rostov Region found itself in the conditions of a "new territoriality" (in connection with the incorporation of the Donbass regions into Russia), which significantly infl uenced its life strategies and social practices and became a factor in testing the sustainability of its formed all-Russian state and civil identity and unity.
The purpose of this study is to sociologically verify the state and features of social mechanisms of adaptation of the population of the Rostov Region in the context of the new territoriality, to identify their conceptual foundations that ensure the unity and sustainability of the reproduction of the socio-territorial community.
The article contains an analysis of life strategies, solidaristic social practices, ideas, opinions of the population, the results of which made it possible to give a comprehensive assessment of the state and features of the adaptive behavior of the population in the context of new territoriality and the ongoing special military operation and to confi rm the hypothesis that the processes of social adaptation of the region's residents to the new reality are based, first of all, on the all-Russian state-civil identity and the established unity of the socio-territorial community, on the community of life strategies and basic patterns of mass consciousness aimed at
achieving the integrity and sustainability of society and state institutions.