Location and Local Community as Factors of Local Identity

Abstract

The paper deals with the role of the local community and place as important factors of individual’s local identity formation. Basing on the analysis of results of the research on identity of indigenous inhabitants of the city of Kharkov, the author emphasizes the great influence of local close environment and features of interaction in the yard during childhood on the formation of individual’s perception of himself as a resident of a certain city, his local identity and city image.