Originating in ancient times as a political and social management body in ethnic communities, the Council of Elders has undergone enormous changes, but remained in the new form. This article discusses emerged quite recently a managing body of the Astrakhan Tatars Osypnoy bigor village, as the Council of Elders. The author analyzes its activities from a position of heterotopic spaces of Astrakhan frontier that allows us to emphasize its main features, functions and place in the heterotopic space.
