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The article provides an overview of the studies devoted to the TB and HIV-infection situation analyses among indigenous minorities in Russia, described national and foreign experience of studying the factors which affect the epidemic situation of socially determined diseases. It is noted the subject mostly carried out in the period from the 60th to the end of the 80s of the twentieth century, and in contrast to tuberculosis, HIV-infection among indigenous peoples is studied slightly. The article reflects the contribution of the Leningrad TB Research Institute (now St. Petersburg Scientific Research Institute of Phtisiopulmonology) in studying tuberculosis spread and reducing its epidemiological indicators in the Northern indigenous people. The published studies are showed that the current scientific and practical research in spreading of socially caused diseases among northern ethnic groups does not meet the changed circumstances.The currently available studies are fragmented and have descriptive character. According to the authors, the development of modern health programs in Indigenous Peoples is only possible based on the circumpolar interdisciplinary research. Also it is overviewed the foreign studies which described the TB and HIV-infection situation in indigenous people worldwide. In general, among the socially determined diseases factors in indigenous peoples, scientists are notified the complex of reasons, such as: low life quality, poor living conditions, features of physiology, mentality and psychology, strong family ties, loss of traditional feeding system, inadequate medical care, lack of safe sexual behavior skills, the presence of harmful habits, migration, environmental violation.