Thearticle deals with the issues of introduction of scientific and normative notions in pedagogic research. The author marks the objective and subjective difficulties in elaboration of terms and notions. It is proved that the objective difficulties are connected with the renewal and change of categories and notions of pedagogy and education in the period of its modernization, appearance of a number of normative notions that vary from the key scientific notions in pedagogy. The subjective difficulties are connected with gaps in knowledge of a researcher: lack of knowledge in methods of pedagogic notions, logical and methodological principles of introduction of notions in the system of pedagogy and its sectors. The article reveals the contents of scientific and normative notions, determines their correlation and priority of usage.

The article deals with the essence of a creative personality as a value, determines the ethic norms of creative personality’s existence. It deals with the role of freedom, spirituality, responsibility in creative personality’s activities, specifies the significance of personal ethic culture, creation of moral atmosphere of the educational environment. It determines the mechanisms of scientific and ethic support of development of a creative personality. The students’ views are described and analyzed.

The article presents the author's view of the modern environmental education, the establishment of which is influenced by countervailing processes in science and society. It gives the arguments in favor of the culturological model of environmental education .

The article deals with the ways the teachers took into consideration children’s nature in building their pedagogic conceptions in prerevolutionary Russia. The author gives a brief historiographic review of the issue. The article shows great similarity between the pedagogic theories of the Soviet scientists and the principle of “environmental friendliness” in interpretation of a Swiss pedagogue J.H. Pestalozzi where labour is one of the features of his theory of education.

The article deals with the editor’s work of Y.A. Bunin - a writer, a journalist, a public man. His work in the prerevolutionary journal “VestnikVospitatiya” is analyzed in the article. The author attempts to reveal the personal qualities that allowed Y. Bunin to take and hold such a high and responsible post during 20 years, as well as to determine the level and quality of the transformations in the journal that he implemented in that period.

The article deals with such an aspect of educational process as the quality of teaching. Studying factors and the estimation of the basic criteria that influence the degree of teaching qualities at the university are based on the features of person-centered and competency-based approaches. The article represents some concepts, including the quality of teaching, teachers' competency, criteria of evaluation of effective teaching.

The article deals with the formation of professional and creative competence in the study of mathematical disciplines of higher school students of natural sciences and economic trends. The authors have developed a method of teaching that allows students to develop integrative thinking, build their professional and creative competence of the highest level. The proposed method is implemented by means of structural and content models, a new set of training methods that develop integrative complex mathematical problems (CIMZ). The authors suggest the structural and substantial model of formation of professional and creative competence for students of natural and economic areas, where a special role is given to the components (blocks of competences): creative, professional, motivational and personal competences. The article focuses on the structure of professional and creative competence, monitoring and diagnostics in the form of blocks of competence.

The article deals with the pedagogic conditions of development of pupils’ ecological thinking: the potential of the school discipline “Biology” and the effective methods of development of this personal phenomenon, as well as the elements of ecological thinking and behavior. The results that show the efficiency of these conditions are described in the article.

The article deals with the notion “healthy lifestyle”, the author’s approach to the issue of introduction of pupils to healthy lifestyle. The key objectives are represented and the essence of the work on familiarization of pupils with the norms and rules of healthy lifestyle at various age periods are described.

The article deals with the tendencies in the modern amateur artistic work, the prospects of development of children’s choreographic work in the context of the module approach in the system of additional education. The author proves its appropriateness in organization of children’s choreographic studio, as well as the urgency of the new professional standard in the sphere of additional education.

The article deals with the imitation and modelling technologies of post graduate training in the conditions of practice-oriented model of education. It represents the experience of the master’s programme “Physical Education”.

The test experience in Russian as a foreign language shows that great difficulties are caused by training for the subtest “Speaking”. The new area is creation of learning materials to practice the strategies and tactics of verbal communication, scenarios of speech communication. The standard scenarios are given. The article suggests a new component - the scenario of making someone change one’s mind, represents the learning materials on its basis.

The article deals with the independent vocal work of bachelor students. The types and forms of the independent vocal work of bachelor students in the process of music ethnic education are described.

The article deals with the essence of the professional linguistic competence of a foreign specialist and the use of specially adapted reference book as the condition of development of this competence. The features and principles of the reference structure are considered in the article.

The article deals with the technologies of interpretation of a fiction text in the process of development of sociocultural competence of students. The basic features of sociocultural competence are considered. The authors develop the processual model of interpretation of a literary work aimed at future teacher’s sociocultural competence.

The article deals with the suggestive nature of nominations of meditative texts. The lexical units as a part of meditative texts nominations are considered. The basic linguistic methods that form the suggestive potential of meditative texts are found out. The analysis is carried out with the use of explanatory and associative dictionaries.

The article deals with the basic functions of the economic vocabulary in advertising mediatexts. It is stated that in the modern English and Russian media advertisement the economic vocabulary implements the nominative, signification, semasiological, communicative, pragmatic, informational, influential, popularizing functions.

The article deals with the concept military metaphor in the modern media discourse. The author considers such a type of the conceptual military metaphor as “participants of military actions, military units and divisions”in the English, German and Russian media discourse.

The article deals with the features of creation of the image of an enemy by posting and reposting political medianewsin the Facebook social network. The author describes the semantic and pragmatic aspects of the influence on the Facebook social network users in the modern virtual social and political space.

The article deals with the sound semiotic component (audial sign, sound, signal etc.) that helps a hunter to identify the prey, distinguish the sounds it makes and finding out its location. The audial semiotic component favours the process identification of success or failure of hunting and the analysis of the situation of hunting. Thus, listening to the voice of a hound a hunter may find out if a hound is successful, if it has reached an animal, if it is physically strong and healthy, or injured by an animal. All this knowledge helps him orient and plan his actions while hunting.

The article deals with the onomatopoetic words expressing the sounds of breaking subjects. It is stated that the most productive way to form German onomatopoeic words that form the semantic group “words expressing the sounds of breaking subjects” is words compounding. The author finds out the types of compound words in the semantic group.

The article explains the interest to the written monuments of the old English language in the modern science. The author gives the reasons why Wulfstan’s sermon has such a great influence and may form addressees’ world views. The linguistic devices of influence and their place in the structure of the sermon are analyzed in the article.

The article deals with the linguistic cultural features of the names of Chinese medications. The author suggests the classification of medication names in the Chinese linguistic culture that reflects the most significant components included into its names.

The comparative method revealed the drawbacks related to globalization. But in the epoch of “Europe centrism” overcoming in the domestic literature study it appeared to be, together with hermeneutics and receptive aesthetic, the most up-to-date in study of the Russian literature perception in the Arabic East. Based on the creative work by A.P. Chekhov, it is shown how a person and the creative work by a Russian writer “adapt” to the Arabic cultural thinking.

The article deals with the creative work by a prose writer M. Hansen who was a great Norwegian writer at the edge of the XVIII-XIX centuries. The author gives the review of the most significant works by M. Hansen. The research shows that Hansen could combine the most important literary traditions both of the XVIII century and the tendencies contemporary to the author. His creative work is of great importance for establishment of the Norwegian literature.

The article represents the comparative analysis of the works of lyrics translated by a famous Ossetian poet K.L. Khetagurov. This analysis helped to reveal the level of semantic equivalency of the original lexical units. On the basis of the texts in the two languages, the authors determine the adequate reflection of formal features of the original (rhythmic organization of the poem), ways to recreate the pragmatic meaning of the translated text, its stylistic features. The article deals with the ways to adapt the original text to the new receiving culture, cases of the use of national images.

The article deals with the phraseological units included in the field “human the intellectual” fixed in the minor prose by L.E. Ulitskaya. The author represents their typology, features of the use of the units and their analysis.

This article provides an overview of the fund of the National Library of Azerbaijan for the period 2000-2015, a comparative statistical and bibliometric analysis of publications of these years, its distribution by source of obtaining, language and form of the material.

The origins of the cult of St. VarlaamKhutynsky in the old Russia in the XV-XVI centuries are investigated for the first time. The active worship of the Saint went beyond the Khutynsky monastery at the beginning of the XV century. This process went faster in Moscow in 1461. In the XVI century the cult of St. Varlaam became all-Russian. The followers of the cult were Moscow rulers, representatives of the nobility, serving people, citizens and monks.

After the end of the Battle of Mukden (6-26 February 1905) the 241 Infantry Orsk and 242 Infantry Belebeevsk regiments, retreating through Tieling, occupied the Siping position where they stayed till the end of the war. The absence of active military actions helped to arrange everyday life of military men, to make changes in military staff of the Orenburg regiments, to conduct regiment and division parades and inspections.

The article deals with the historical views of F.M. Dostoevsky in the novel “The Teenager”. The theme of revolution and revolutionaries didn’t become the central one in the novel. The author shows the reasons for appearing the radical organizations in Russia. Dostoevsky viewed the issue as a drawback of education in Russia, the indolence of the Russian people but not as the result of economic and political reasons. At the same time the author idealized the reforms of Alexander II.

The article deals with the dynamics of the population number, natural movement of the population, the population of the Zhyrnovsky municipal district of the Volgograd region based on the statistics and figures of the all-Russia census of the 2002 and 2010. The reasons are found that influence the change in numbers and the natural movement of the population. The features of family, marriage, ethnic details of the population of the Zhyrnovsky municipal district of the Volgograd region are characterized.