Meaning of ethnonym «shor» in cultural code formation and self-identification

Shor ethnogenesis was formed on the basis of a single substrate Samoyedic and Finno-Ugric tribes in the 6-4 centuries BC from the Ural community. In 6-9 centuries Shor was part of the Turkic, Uighur and the Yenisei Khanates. The term «shor-people» was adopted as an emerging ethnic group, and representatives of the scientific community. Only in the early twentieth century it was recognized that the Turkic-speaking population of the South Siberia (Kemerovo region) is a conglomerate of various Turkic tribes, under the General title «Shor», but is a single nation - ethnicity. The term «shor-people» was given to the nature of the ethnonym, constructed artificially. The transfer, and further fixing, artificially created ethnonym on similar language group of the Kuznetsk Tatars, largely determined the nature, pace and direction of ethnic processes taking place in their environment, and also marked the centre of ethnic consolidation of the Turks of Southern Siberia.