Аннотация:Dangers and risks of modern societies greatly differ from those of previous epochs. These threats are not limited in spatial-temporary and social terms and are acquiring global proportions. They are becoming less quantifiable, less subject to forecast, prevention and avoidance; they jeopardize ontological security of the subject. Since the subject’s personal experience does not effectively address these challenges the images of the collective unconscious are being actualized. Thanks to them vectors of searching for strategies to provide psychological security get activated. One of significant aspects of psychological security is subjects’ identity continuity including ethnic identity. Such identity is realized through subjective experience of sameness and continuity of one’s own personality accompanied by social recognition of this sameness and continuity by others. A sense of identity contributes to being sure of purpose and meaning of life, confidence in the ability to be socially recognized and supported, which is fundamental for the development of subjects in an unpredictable world. The survey on perceptions of belonging to ethnic groups as a result of changes in the respondents’ place of residence and status showed that a sense of belonging plays a compensatory role in the face of anxiety factor, and identity continuity is a positive determinant for the subjects’ psychological security. The development of these principal issues will allow for designing optimal parameters of identity continuity maintenance as a mechanism of psychological security provision.