Tsel"yu issledovaniya yavlyaetsya istoriko-etnograficheskaya kharakteristika spetspereselentsev-nemtsev, podvergshikhsya deportatsii po etnicheskomu priznaku v 1941-1955gg. Rassmatrivaetsya dinamika vnutrietnicheskoy i mezhetnicheskoy kommunikatsii nemtsev, provoditsya rekonstruktsiya etapov etnicheskoy istorii nemtsev Tomskoy oblasti, kotorye soprovozhdalis" transformatsiey etnicheskikh kharakteristik dannogo etnosa. Vyyavlyayutsya skrytye resursy deportirovannogo naroda, znachenie etnicheskikh kharakteristik, povliyavshikh na ego adaptatsiyu v neblagopriyatnykh usloviyakh spetsposeleniya. Inertsionnost" etnicheskikh elementov, v pervuyu ochered" etnicheskogo samosoznaniya za schyet vnutrietnicheskoy kommunikatsii, sposobstvovali sokhraneniyu etnicheskoy spetsifiki v period deportatsii. V to zhe vremya aktsentiruetsya vnimanie na protsesse transformatsii etnicheskikh kharakteristik v posledeportatsionnyy period, sledstviem chego stalo konstruirovanie etnicheskikh granits u potomkov spetspereselentsev. Informatsiya i vyvody issledovaniya budut polezny pri razrabotke nauchno obosnovannoy programmy i provedeniya politiki v sfere mezhetnicheskoy kommunikatsii. Materialy mogut byt" ispol"zovany pri sozdanii obobshchayushchikh fundamental"nykh trudov po istorii, etnologii i etnografii.