There are analyzed the thematic peculiarities of the websites that represent the Cossack culture on the Internet. There is determined what images from the past, the present and the future build and construct the numerous sociocultural groups united by common terms “Cossacks”, “the Cossacks”, as well as which interests popularize and which propagandize values in the electronic informational space.

There is considered the development of the tourism sphere in the Ourupinsk district of the Volgograd region. There is maintained that the support of tourism may favour the economic development of the mentioned region. There are enumerated the main reasons for underdevelopment of the tourism sector of Volgograd economics and the guidelines of cultural policy in this sphere.