Valentin P. Babintsev, Helen I. Babintseva, Oleg V. Bykhtin, Alexander V. Pastyuk, Viktor A. Sapryka, Peculiarities of the Social Chronotopes of the Boundary Regions of Russia and Ukraine, The Social Sciences, Volume 10,Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1116-1118, ISSN 1818-5800, sscience.2015.1116.1118, (https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2015.1116.1118) Abstract: The study considers the specifics of social chronotopes of the boundary regions of Russia and Ukraine. The social chronotope of a boundary region is defined as a conceptual paradigm according to which this administrative-territorial formation is considered as a geopolitical structure localized within a socio-cultural space (non-linear socio-cultural system). The most common specific features of the chronotope of the Ukrainian (discontinuity of the social space and time, mosaic structure, presence of a few centers of gravity) and the Russian (homogeneity, focus on a single center) boundary regions. Keywords: Social chronotopes;boundary region;social space;social time;temporal topologic processes;peripheral subcultural environment