Abstract
<jats:p>A significant number of residents of these regions follow a traditional way of life, which implies constant migration. In such conditions, ensuring children’s right to education and access to compulsory general education inevitably conflicts with the traditional educational practices of preparing children for traditional ways of economic activity and everyday life, which involve the direct transfer of knowledge and learning from fathers to sons and from mothers to daughters. In different Russian regions, this problem is addressed in different ways, which defines the purpose of this study: to analyze the existing regional approaches aimed at resolving this conflict. Based on the results of the study, it was concluded that the main organizing forms of the provision of general education for children whose families follow a traditional nomadic way of life are boarding school education and the creation of nomadic schools. The existing forms of ensuring the right to general education for children in the regions under consideration represent a certain compromise, since either the quality of education suffers, or the direct transfer of cultural and economic experience from one generation to another is hampered. In addition, the existing limitations of the education system do not always allow for the study of native language and culture within the framework of formal education. The article is addressed to specialists in the ethnography of the peoples of the Far North, Siberia, and the Far East, and to representatives of education authorities.</jats:p>