The article deals with the issue of formation of the environmental responsibility in students in the course “Geography of Russia”, due to the orientation of modern education on the personal development of students, as well as the trend of integration into its content the issues of sustainable development. It presents the sequence and technology of ecological responsibility development, the guidelines for implementation of the technology at the lesson organized following the FSES.

There is represented one of the main methodological conditions of formation of ecological responsibility in studying Russian geography – correlation of the class, extracurricular and out-of-class work in the basic course “Russian Geography”, elective course “Ecological Responsibility of a Russian Citizen” and children’s ecological association “My Guideline – Ecological Responsibility for My Native Land”.