There is represented the phenomenon of Russian patriotism and the necessity of its study in the postindustrial realities of the modern period, the regional innovative model of the patriotic education in the appropriate paradigmatic context, strategic guidelines and the basic areas of its implementation in the conditions of the XXI century.

There are considered the axiological foundations of development of patriotism and national self-consciousness in the Russian pedagogy. Based on the historic and pedagogic analysis there is revealed the correlation of patriotism and national self-consciousness of a Russian, represented the modern interpretations of the category “patriotism”, marked out the areas of education in development of national self-consciousness and patriotic feeling of Russian pupils by means of popular pedagogy.

There are analyzed and classified various approaches to civil education, substantiated the key role of pupil’s subjectivity in this process represented as the civil position of a teacher and a pupil. There is revealed the place of the position aimed at the continuous pedagogic education and the main directions of civil education: cultural information, skills and cultural values.

There are represented the approaches to the research and organization of the process of personal patriotic position establishment in accordance with the ideas and principles of personal developing education.

There is revealed the correlation between students’ patriotism and tolerance establishment. It is known that the patriotism and tolerance are the components of individual social experience. There is proved that the establishment of tolerance and patriotism is determined by the individual social experience (as internal factor) and successful socio-pedagogical interaction (as external factor).

There are analyzed the difficulties of students in personal and professional establishment at a pedagogical higher school. There are suggested the forms of psychological and pedagogical, organizational and pedagogical support of development of students’ civil identity in the process of professional training.

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.

There is actualized the role of civil education for the modern polycultural society. By the example of Russia and the USA there is shown that civil education is becoming an important direction of the educational policy of a democratic state.

There are revealed the modern variable approaches to social and pedagogic projecting and implementation of the programmes of the development of pupil’ civil and patriotic consciousness in the social partnership of school and family, substantiated the urgency of social and pedagogic projecting of such programmes as the important resource of formation of future teacher’s professional competences

There is considered the youth policy in Kazakhstan and the main approaches to its implementation. There are analyzed some aspects of the system of the technical, professional and higher education. There is given the statistic information for the last fifteen years. There is researched the issue of students’ values formation, considered the mechanisms of solution

There is considered the issue of formation of value guidelines of civil and patriotic orientation of future specialists in physical culture and sports. There is specified the scientific notion of value guidelines of students’ civil and patriotic orientation. There are regarded the methods of value guidelines formation. There are represented the scientific grounds for pedagogic conditions that favour the effectiveness of the process of value guidelines formation.

There are considered the issues of ethos development of future engineers in the course of training at a higher school by the example of technical education in some countries of the world. There are highlighted the existing engineering ethic codes which provide a useful framework for engineering ethics education.

There is represented the combination of the priority areas of work at a federal university in education in the open sociocultural space of the North Caucasus region. There is emphasized the necessity of social partnership of the main subjects of educational processes at the regional level.

There is substantiated the methodology of development of the educational and professional standard of the Southern Federal University. Its urgency is caused by its orientation at training a teacher of the new formation, implementation of the paradigm of humanities and activity and the pedagogic education adequate to it - the anticipatory pedagogic education of the university type. Special attention is paid to training a teacher for the innovative work and finding out the specificity of the university requirements to the pedagogic education.

There is represented the retrospective analysis of the discussion concerning the issues of patriotic education at the end of the XIX - beginning of the XX centuries. There is made the conclusion that patriotic education of the Russian youth is the basis for keeping the otherness of the historically established ethnocultural communities, and it is the condition of preserving Russia as an independent subject of history.

There are characterized the scientific and moral and ethic qualities of the generation of the scientists-front-line soldiers. There is characterized the work in the years of war of a veteran, scientist, academician M.N. Skatkin.

There are considered the peculiarities of interpretation of the ideas of free education and morality in the pedagogic theories by L.N. Tolstoy and K.N. Ventsel.

Terminological system of linguistic-cultural conceptology as a contrastive background allowing to distinguish a linguistic-cultural concept from a pseudo-term of the same name is described; common and specialized disciplinary terminological units are studied.

There are specified the notions, analyzed the sphere, revealed the parameters and the main stages of the intertextual analysis, as well as the peculiarities of the intertext figures that are the most significant for such analysis.

There is considered the contrast of the ideas in the texts of the modern Russian free verse. There is stated that the typical semantic oppositions in the free verse are the contrast of the original and the apparent, the free and the coherent, the real and the imaginary, the customary and the unexpected, the divine and the humane, the past / future and the present, the ephemeral and the constant, that has the right for a word and bears responsibility for what has been said.

There are described the types of abbreviated constructs, i.e. contracted components of compound abbreviated words. There is stated that abbreviated construct may have the status of abbreviated equivalent, i.e. the constructed doublets of the component of the initial word combination used in abbreviation, and abbreviated morpheme, i.e. on the basis of the abbreviated equivalent of the morpheme with the abstract semantics used in quasiabbreviations.

Based on the unofficial names of cities (astionyms) and contexts of their use represented in the electronic dictionary “Languages of Russian cities”, there are revealed the structural and word formative models and the appropriate territorial and socially conditioned stylistic variations of astionyms.

There are considered the appellative units that acquired more than one meaning in the process of functioning, so became polysemantic. Along with the regular ability to be reproduced in speech, to be fixed in dictionary, grammatical and syntagmatic forms, this feature is one of the criteria that the appellative unit is not the fact of speech but the fact of language now.

There are analyzed the functioning peculiarities of metaphors and comparisons in the epistolary style of the XIX-XX centuries. There are revealed the usage regularities of these tropes that are similar to their use in colloquial speech. There is given the thematic classification of the analyzed metaphors and comparisons. There are shown the author’s preferences in tropes choice relating to this or that thematic group that characterize the epistolary idiostyle of the writer.

There are described the semantic peculiarities of the term “information warfare” and considered the transformations of its meaning in a journalistic text.

There is considered the ethnic and subethnic population of the Volgograd region, determined the key role of the Russian people, characterized its dialectal peculiarities, analyzed the folk speech of the Ukrainians, the Tatars who live in the region. There are found out the locations where the Kazakhs, the Azerbaijanis, the Armenians and people of other nations live.

There are regarded such specific features of the syntax of Zavolzhsky dialects as the various types of inversions, non-typical use and functioning of linking words, influence of some particular morphologic transformations on syntagmatics of the main and secondary parts of the sentence.

The paper focuses on the film Enemy at the Gates (2001) and its discussion on Russian Internet sites in order to reveal the portrayal of the Stalingrad Battle by Western cinematographers and its perception by Russian viewers. Methodologically, the research relies on narrative analysis to establish the factors which must be taken into account while creating a narrative film about an alien culture.

The linguocultural concept “laugh” is regarded in the comparative aspect on the basis of the Russian and the Spanish languages. There are found out the basic antinomies of the concept and revealed its national peculiarities.

There is considered the myth concept “Samovila” characteristic for the Bulgarian fairy tale folklore. The structure of the myth concept includes conceptual, figurative and axiological levels which can differ from the appropriate levels of a general cultural concept. There are analyzed the features typical only to the character, and his discrepancy.

For the first time there is revealed the through motive “a good warrior” that has religious and philosophical and aesthetic connotations in the creative work by A.K. Tolstoy. The main motive is determining for comprehension of the religious and philosophical world-view of the poet, his aesthetic conception, idea and artistic peculiarity of Tolstoy’s creative work.

From the position of the psychological analysis there are considered the ways of implementation of the theme “children and war” in the works by the modern fantast writers.

The article is devoted to the reflection of the Battle of Stalingrad in the prose works by Russian authors, veterans of the Great Patriotic war, created in the 1980-2000. Such novels as 'My Stalingrad' written by Mikhail Alekseev and 'In the Trenches of Stalingrad' by Viktor Nekrasov are in the spotlight of the author's attention.

The study of the main issues of the Great Victory of the Soviet people over the fascist Germany was and is quite urgent. Researchers pay special attention to the little investigated or not investigated issues of the beginning, the course and the end of the Great Patriotic War of the 1941-1945. In particular, there are analyzed the issues of the “white” spots. In this connection there is noted that now it is even 70 years after the victory in the Great Patriotic War, but the number of “white spots” in its history hasn’t become less. They are covered in the article on the basis of the particular facts.

There are analyzed the strategies of the Nazi authorities after the Battle of Stalingrad. The destruction of the 6th Army was considered as the basic model of the future of the German nation in the conditions of the military defeat. There is shown the criminal nature of the policy carried out under the mythic notion “destruction”, meaning the duty till the death, which lead to the numerous human victims among the military and civil population.

There is considered the history of the German nation during the last century based on the theory by a psychologist V.D. Volkan who considers pride connected with the victory and disgrace and shame connected with defeats as the determining factors of nation’s self-consciousness. The author considers that it’s the sense of shame that helped the German army to overcome the “break of civilization” that happened in the years of the Second World War, and return to the circle of culture nations.

There is considered the influence of I.V. Stalin’s speeches in the first period of the Great Patriotic War on workers’ general mood, labour motivation and attitude to the war.

There is considered the issue of the major role of the central and territorial organs of the PCIA in organization and establishment of the guerrilla movement by the example of the situation in the Yaroslavl region in the course of the German attack on Moscow in the autumn 1941. The real threat of the enemy occupation of the Yaroslavl region territory made the PCIA organs create secret services, diversion groups and guerrilla groups. There is considered the process of organization of the material supply of the future guerrilla groups and diversion groups. Based on the FSS archival materials of the Yaroslavl region there s given the information about the man power of the guerrilla groups and diversion groups.

There are analyzed the main areas of work of scientific research institutes in the years of the Great Patriotic War, considered the factors that provide the effectiveness of scientific research work, given the examples of scientific issues elaborated by the scientists and specialists of scientific research institutes.

There are considered the military operations in the centre of Stalingrad, 19-26 September, 1942. In that period the Soviet command fought for the initiative in the battle for the city. There are analyzed the basic events and decisions, favourable and negative factors in the course of military operations, reasons for success and failures. The article is prepared with the use of the domestic and foreign archival information.

There is given the characteristic of poorly studied in the history of the Great Patriotic War military operations of some divisions of the Soviet troops in the summer and the autumn of the 1942 in the steppes of Kalmykia, at the external defensive fortification of Stalingrad, determined their role in achieving the victory in Stalingrad.

There is represented the occupation policy in the districts of Stalingrad and the region temporarily occupied by the fascist forces. There are shown the material and everyday difficulties of the life of local population in the period of occupation. There are given the archival records concerning the damage to the civilians, to the objects of the industrial and sociocultural significance. There is described the fight with the occupants of guerrilla groups in the Stalingrad region.

There is analyzed the condition of the culture sphere of Stalingrad and the region after the Battle of Stalingrad, given the assessment of the material and financial losses of the institutions of culture during the years of war, considered the problems in determination of the damage caused to the institutions of culture of the Battle of Stalingrad in the years of the Great Patriotic War.

This article starts a series of works considering the issue of a person in the conditions of captivity in the period of the Great Patriotic War. The project is aimed at finding out the characteristics that reflect the political and law, social and economic, culture and communicative aspects of captivity. In spite of the big historiography of the issue, many aspects are still uncertain. There is recreated the captivity by the example of the Astrakhan region.

There is considered the consistent policy of the Soviet Union directed at the end of the Second World War; given the characteristics of the military operations of the USSR against Japan in the period of 9 August - 2 September 1945, analyzed the role of the commander-in-chief of the Far Eastern strategic direction A.M. Vasilevsky in the defeat of the Kwantung Army

There is studied the phenomenon of falsification of history of the Second World War by the example of the ungrounded and humiliating glorification from the national point of view of a German Nazi poetess Agnes Miegel (1879-1964).

There is regarded the issue of establishment and work of the only Russian organization of numerous victims of the war - the Union of Juvenile Prisoners of Nazi Camps. There is highlighted the legal status, the question of the state and public acceptance of the problems of former juvenile prisoners. The attention is paid to the issue of memory about the war; those who overcame this ordeal are the last witnesses of the war.