The article deals with the state of the modern pedagogy characterized by co-existence of various paradigmatic guidelines that are the methodological basis of education. Polyparadigmatic nature does not imply the opposition of the pedagogic systems with different purposes but determines the leading approaches in theoretic research and educational experience, is not regarded as eclecticism and crisis factor but as pedagogic wisdom.

The article deals with the approaches to education in the modern conditions. It is proved that the classic ways of cooperation with students may be used one in some cases. It is supposed that the phenomenon and hermeneutic approach may be used in planning of the educational cooperation with students.

The article gives the theoretic grounds and describes the structural and functional model of value attitude to heroic traditions. It marks the functions that show the connection of value attitude to heroic traditions and a pupil’s personality. The components of the personal phenomenon are found out: cognitive and assessing, emotional and meaningful, activity.

The article deals with the results of the diagnostics of school experience in development of cultural self-determination of senior school pupils. The potential of social disciplines and humanities for the development of this personal phenomenon, comprehension of the tasks of this process by teachers are described in the article. Value guidelines of the modern senior school pupils are found out. The levels of development of cultural self-determination of senior school pupils are determined.

The article represents the renewed system of education of the department of theory and methodology of professional education. The attention is focused on the importance of spirit-oriented paradigm of education, possibility to serve higher spiritual origins in a person and the urgency of development of spiritual values of students in educational activities.

The article deals with the phenomena “socially safe” and “socially dangerous” behaviour, the basic components of readiness for it through interdependence of two features: the skills of safe behavior (mastering/lack) and a person’s collaboration with the environment and oneself (dangerous/not dangerous). The variants of correlation of socially safe and socially dangerous behaviour of teenagers under age are characterized.

The article deals with the notion “creative abilities of a teenager”. It represents and describes the author’s methods of development of modern teenagers’ creative abilities based on the pedagogic potential of the Russian folk culture. The author describes the stages of development of a pedagogic situation and the principles of teacher’s work aimed to develop teenagers’ creative abilities based on the pedagogic potential of the Russian folk culture, determines teacher’s actions at every stage. The results of the systemic forming experiment are represented.

The article deals with the potential of a phonetic contest in English as a form of extracurricular activity. The goals and tasks are considered, the analysis of the annual event held at school #61 of Volgograd is carried out. The criteria to choose prizewinners of the phonetic contest are determined.

The article deals with a didactic complex of exercises aimed at teaching communicative behaviour in foreign language environment. The exercises are based on the author’s educational algorithm and the principles of teaching communicative behaviour as the means of socialization in foreign language environment.

The article deals with the potential of the “anticipatory” (propaedeutic) teaching of physics aimed to develop primary school pupils’ interest to natural sciences and creative research experience.

The article deals with the issues of monitoring of future specialists’ professional competences. The following is considered to be the priority: specifying the essence and the structure of the professional competence and implementation of the innovative types of monitoring that reflect a particular type of collaboration of the parties of the educational process.

The article deals with the technology of integration of classical and vocational knowledge in the course of implementation of the vocational educational programme 40.05.01 - Legal national security.

The article deals with the potential of the synchronous monitoring in development of the algorithm structure of the independent work of students. The authors analyze the essence, structure, characteristics and algorithm of the synchronous type of pedagogic monitoring in comparison with the traditional types of monitoring. The mechanism of development of the abilities to structure the independent work in the process of self-assessment of the educational work is described in details. The grounds for the necessity of automatic functions of the synchronous monitoring are given.

The article deals with the features of historical and pedagogic study of Cicero legacy - issues of pedagogic hermeneutic of his works and the way the old Greek model of an educated man is reflected in his philosophic and educational conception. It also gives the historical and pedagogic assessment of the principle “humanitas” covered in the works by Cicero and describes the cases when Cicero referred to the works by Plato and his understanding of the educational model.

The historic approach to study the issue allows critical assessment the previous pedagogic experience and searching for the humanistic approaches in modern education of children, which is highly urgent. The article deals with the evolution of encouragement and punishment as the leading methods of moral education, features of approaches and the use of encouragement and punishment in pedagogy of various nations. The objective assessment of the historical experience of the use of encouragement and punishment in pedagogy will help to avoid the mistakes in modern education.

Interpersonal adaptation is considered to be a process that could become one of the factors to optimize communication. As a positive phenomenon the adaptation to an interlocutor, however, has borderlines that might have negative impact on the interaction, lead to conformism, lack of “I”, complete subordination to communicative initiative and an interlocutor’s communicative style. The author represents the review of the borderlines of adaptation determined by the level it is expressed, approved, relevant and, as a result, influencing the outcome of communication.

The article deals with the origins and diversity of periphrasis in the modern Russian language. Three ways to be included in the context of periphrastic combinations are described. The author shows the role of the individual author’s metaphorization of fixed expressions regarding other scientific fields (free atoms). The features of syntagmatic structure in metaphoric periphrasis are found out. The analysis shows the individual style of an ethnographer using metaphoric periphrastic combinations.

The article deals with the features of verbalization and conceptualization of Russians’ ideas of the present socio-economic reality based on the innovation “leninopad” and its derivatives. The author finds out the word formation method, as well as word-formative and associative connections in formation of their inner form. The functioning features of these pun transforms in mass media texts and in verbal texts of average Internet users are analyzed in the article.

The article deals with the toponyms of the Republic of Kalmykia, determines the contents of the toponymic dictionary and the structure of the dictionary entry. The examples of dictionary entries of the planned dictionary of Kalmyk toponyms are given in the article.

The article aims to study the sacred meaning of the Kalmyk toponyms with the component “arshan”, “tsagan” and “khar” in the linguoculturological aspect. It is stated that toponyms in the linguistic thinking of the Kalmyk are used in direct and indirect meanings.

The modern society has a great demand for specialists with highly developed linguistic competence. The author analyzes the features of advertisement and PR specialists, the modern state of graduates’ linguistic training, finds out the reasons for their low linguistic competence and the role of linguistic disciplines in the system of advertisement and PR specialists training, and thus finds the ways to improve students’ verbal skills.

The article deals with the features of the theme of the Battle of Stalingrad in the Russian literature of the 2000s. The author analyzes the fictional and documentary works written by the authors who were veterans of the Great Patriotic War.

The article describes some aspects of variety of a fictional text displayed at the level of the contents and the compositions of a book of poetry, based on various editions of the collection of poems by O. Mandelstam “The Stone”.

The article deals with space in the story by A.P. Chekhov “Tumbleweed”. The author studies the semantic and functional aspects of the motives of leaving and the way, the image of Svyatogorsky monastery, covers the features of the regional aspect in description of the South of Russia. It is shown that the space in the story “Tumbleweed” as the combination of landscapes and topos becomes the essential way to summarize and characterize the national life.

The article represents the mnemonic view of the poetics of the “final” novels by F.M. Dostoevsky and B.L. Pasternak. The processes of memory and forgetting are regarded in the aspect of interdependence of the vitalogic and thanatologic discourses that form the multilayer nature of the plots. The category of the “vital life” is opposed to the metaimage of the theatre which is formed by the semantics of the artificial, false, untrue.

The article deals with the features of the narrative structure in the story by V.P. Nekrasov “May the Ninth” that displays the system of characters with hidden prototypes. It helps to reveal the originality of the author’s view in the story written in the emigration period of the author’s creative work.

The article deals with the basic directions and tendencies of the USSR NEP study in the modern domestic historiography. The authors point out the key problems that are in the focus of research. Based on the analysis of the domestic scientists, the opinion about the lack of attention to socio-psychological characteristics of the Soviet society in the period of NEP is expressed in the article. The authors suggest that special attention should be paid to the mental aspects of the origins, development and the end of NEP.

The article represents the archival materials regarding one of the components of the process of colonization of the Kola Peninsula in the Soviet period of the Murmansk history. The work of the enterprise “Zhelryba” is thoroughly analyzed. The author gives the facts that refute its unsatisfactory work claimed in the Soviet period. The article represents a number of archival facts concerning the work of the enterprise “Zhelryba”.

The article deals with the typical form of training and retraining of specialists in the sphere of agriculture, as well as their role and the role of agricultural science in development of the agrarian industry in Dagestan in the conditions of the postwar strengthening of the republic.