There is considered the issue of patriotic education of a personality in the modern conditions when many usual life attributes change within the period of one generation. In these conditions the key role in the region belongs to a modern classical university, which has personnel, material and technical, scientific and methodological and other support, has cultural work of several levels: country culture, academician culture, cultural elements of internationality and is able to become a resource centre in organization of the processes of patriotic education. Functioning in the educational space, these correlations are becoming cultural, spiritual and moral, patriotic phenomena that produce the new models of behavior of people and institutes.