Socio-Cultural Study of Leisure Needs and Preferences of People with Disabilities Living in the City of Krasnoyarsk

This article focuses on monitoring and analysis of contemporary cultural needs of people with disabilities living in the city of Krasnoyarsk with the purpose to identify the system of cultural values and to form current cultural policy on its basis. In accordance with the analog projects of Russian and foreign socio-cultural studies dated by the XX - beginning of the XXI centuries, In the first section of the article the grounds are expanded for drawing up the questionnaire «Cultural and leisure needs of residents of the Krasnoyarsk Krai.» Further, the interpretation of results of the socio-cultural study of leisure activities of people with disabilities living in urban areas, of Krasnoyarsk Krai are given, and acute problems, from the point of view of the respondents, in the existing organization of cultural and leisure activities are revealed. In the third part, the recommendations for development of adequate organization of cultural and leisure activities of people with disabilities in accordance with revealed needs were given, the project, «My city, my home, my family,» aimed at integrating people with disabilities into society was suggested. The authors believe that the recommended package of measures within initiated project contributes to enhancing the vital activity of disabled people, as well as actualizes the inherency of the given social group, demonstrating the basic foundations of modern society, in the cultural community of the city of Krasnoyarsk.