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The topic of the research of spacious aspects of culture of the Serbian population in Kosovska Mitrovica, the town which was from 1999 split from ethnical grounds in two parts: Southern, inhabited almost exclusively by Albanians, and Northern one, inhabited mostly by Serbs. Division from ethnical grounds is also present in the Northern part, in which several quarts are inhabited mostly by Albanians. By starting with the concept of spacious behaviour under which the author understands specific forms of public behaviour of people, which include the overcoming of some distance, that is moving through the town, the author tries to think over of the Serbian population toward the mentioned division of labour, and come to the answer to the question whether and in what way such division has impact on the patterns it relies on in everyday moving and performance of everyday activities. Furthermore, by methods of structured and semi-structured interview, the research was being conducted in the Northern Kosovska Mitrovica from 18th to 22nd July 2011, on the sample of ten respondents of the Serbia ethnical identity. The achieved result during the research shows that the area of the town in which the respondents live is being defined through the discourse of Serbian-Albanian division, which is being manifested in everyday life through permanent interethnic tensions, and from that point of view parts of the town inhabited with Albanians are being perceived as risky ones with regard to their own security. In accordance with the above mentioned, the frames of everyday moving of town's areas are being mostly connected with parts of the town inhabited by Serbian population, while in parts inhabited by Albanian population such as Bošnjačka mahala and Three Skyscrapers, they go only per need or do not go at all. The given results are to be considered only as the initial ones, and the author thinks they should be reviewed additionally in order to deepen the study of this problems. The contribution of this paper is to be in the following: 1) it gives the contribution to the more thorough overview of everyday life of Serbs in the Northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica; 2) theoretically, by this paper it is drawn the attention on the importance of connection of the theory of risk with the concept of spacious behaviour, especially from the point of view of interethnic tension consideration as facts in urban spaces defining. Regarding the last mentioned thing, the author suggests that for the marking of moving through the town which includes planning in the aim of risk minimization from (ethnical) conflict, instead of the syntagm spacious behaviour the use of the one named spacious strategies.