There is considered the model of the process of senior school pupils’ research culture development. There are represented the approaches to construct it taking into consideration the essential characteristics of research culture, age peculiarities of senior school pupils. There are substantiated the stages of research culture formation: propaedeutic, heuristic, creative stages. The scientific society of the students of classical education and research projects are regarded as the conditions of senior school pupils’ research culture.

There is substantiated the specific character of classical research, revealed the essential characteristics and marked out the criteria foundations and signs of senior school pupils’ research culture.