The urgency stems from the fact that in the post-Soviet period as a result of intense migratory flows on the background of natural depopulation, deformation of traditional ethnodemographical structure of society took place, which led to the occurrence of migrantophobia and distribution of local inter-ethnic clashes. The aim of the article is to study the influence of intensity and anthropoflows structure on the character of interethnic relations in regional society.

The study is based on the use of the following methods:

- analysis and interpretation of secondary statistical data and legal acts;

- the authors’ study, in which 851 people were interviewed.

Representativeness of the conducted research procedures is ensured through the development and implementation of a multi-stage stratified sampling (type of settlement, the settlement area, respondent’s gender, age subgroup, level of education, socio-professional and socio-economic status). The object of the study was population aged 18 years that are residents in the territory of the Rostov region. Territorial sample included the city of Rostov-on-Don, 9 cities and 8 districts of the Rostov region.

Key trends of anthropoflows are to reduce the number of Russian-speaking population of the region against the background of growth of the North Caucasus, South Caucasus and Central Asian diasporas. Factors that determine the state of relations between old residents, diasporas and migrants include: localization of migrants, history of diaspora presence, sub-ethnic and confessional structure of migrant communities, level of socio-economic development of recipient-territory of migration, niche of employment activity of migrants, character of motives have caused migration flow.

Comprehensive analysis allows forecasting the development of inter-ethnic relations in the next 10-15 years.

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