To a life to the Russian environment unfamiliar for them it is possible to
judge degree of adaptability of immigrants if to estimate structure of this
human stream. Not a secret that the overwhelming majority of them - young
men (from 15 till 35 years). About that, hopes on the general Soviet past
are how much justified as pledge of successful assimilation, those who
served in army together with natives of Central Asia and caucasus well know.
But even this minimum set of knowledge and skills is at an insignificant
share of the most age immigrants.