The problems of socialization of young people and the formation of their socio-cultural identity become the main theoretical issues and methodological foundations of scientific and research projects related to the implementation of the state youth policy. These methodological aspects of the study are directly adjacent to the study and analysis of the formation of a single Russian civil nation, national and state identity, education tolerance to representatives of different ethnic groups, interethnic cooperation. The particular relevance of these aspects are in terms of the ongoing migration policy aimed at attracting young migrants in the Russian regions from other national republics and CIS countries, which are designed to fill labour shortages and to take the important socio-economic and socio-demographic challenges of the region development. The objects of sociological research conducted by survey methods are closely related social communities, carrying out their activities on the basis of existing social institutions in specific socio-economic and socio-cultural conditions of modern Russia and representing young migrants (from 14 to 30 years) from the national republics that are part of the Russian Federation, living in the Nizhny Novgorod region for no more than 5 years. In the course of the research, the authors identified new trends in the formation of motivations, features and life strategies of young migrants from the national republics of the Russian Federation living in the Nizhny Novgorod region for no more than 5 years. The assessment of their integration into the host society is given.