The Russian cultural tradition had been settled down in the Urals and Siberia by out-migrants from European Russia. Because of an active colonization drive to the East was taken part by comers from the various ethnographic zones, in particular, of the North, South and Middle Russias, that tradition appeared to be represented by all the above mentioned variants in the mid-19th century. Their interplay, as well as the contacts with the other traditions (those of non-Russian migrants and natives), led to the intensive development and enrichment of the traditional Russian culture. Nevertheless, because of great territorial extension, divergence of local natural, economic and ethnic conditions, variety of colonization patterns in the Urafs and Siberia, there had no been signs that new regional variants of the Russian ethno-cultural tradition, (like those of the North, South and Middle Russias) emerged during the period. The result was the rising of the numerous small-scale local ethnographic groups.