Accordingly to the large number of sociological survey in differents regions of the Russian Federation, the essence of the problem of Orthodox religious identity is that aprpximately 80 % of the respondents are identifying themself as Orthodox, but according to the author�s supervisions, including supervisions, deepth interviews, content-analysis of the Orthodox printed and digital mass media, just 5-3 percents of citizens are having Orthodox lifestyle according to the canons of the confession. The reasons of this are the specific Orthodox discourse, which has formed religious identity in 90th years of XX century, which based on the artistic, mythological, political originality of this confession, but ignoring or almost ignoring an ideological, phylosophical content of the Orthodox discourse andthe national Russian set of mind. The formation of the Orthodox religious identity was founded on speculative constructions of the artistic and mythological nature, which has no real example of the concrete religious behavior and no alive everyday tradition of the confessional live and which has poor knowledges in the field of religion. The fascination to the facade of folkloristic, sacramental and culinaric side and extensive development led the Russian Orthodox Church to the formation of centaur-idea of the Orthodox identity, which combines an elements of Orthodox religious denomination, everyday paganish superstitions, artistic, mythological, nationalistic and political figures. The Russian set of mind with its pendular character of the labour activity and alternation of fasts and festivals in the Orthodox tradition are also determined the pendular specific of the Orthodox religious activity and identity. In result of this contemporary Russia has two types of the Orthodox religious identity: folcloristic-ceremonial (villatic) and phylosophical-rationalistic (citified).\\r\\nKeywords: religious identity, discourse, set of mind, religious intelligence, centaur idea of the Orthodox identity, set of mind, pendular character of religious life.

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