The article deals with the development and the external expertise of the training and methodological support of the basic vocational educational programs of the system of secondary vocational education. It represents the experience of the regional teaching and methodological association in the system of secondary vocational educationof the Volgograd region in the development of requirements to the working programmes of the academic disciplines and professional modules reflecting the specifics of FSES of SVEbased on the TOP-50.

The article presents the contents and process of the modular further training course “Models and technologies of state and municipal administration”. It is concluded that the continuous education is highly relevant for the development of the modern society, which determines education“through life”.

Based on the research of domestic and foreign andragogues, the article deals with thenotion of an adult, the features and principles of teaching middle-aged people. The basic features of an effective model of the educational process of middle-aged people are under consideration.

The article deals with the essence and content of the author’s model of formation of communicative culture of students in the learning process in higher school.

The article deals with the competence of the bachelors of applied Informatics in the field of object-oriented programming. It represents the contents, functions and features of the motivational and value, organizational and content, cognitive and operational, personal and reflective components of the competence. It explains the two-stage model of formation of the competence involving the implementation of two interrelated disciplines.

The article deals with thegeneral conceptual approaches to the model of a specialist of the XXI century through the analysis of the required competences. Special attention is paid to the professional pedagogical competence as a set of socio-psychological, psychological and pedagogical, subject-related, communicative competences. The criteria of its formation level are under consideration.

The distinctive feature of the modern system of education, including foreign language sphere, is the need to improve the quality of vocational training of future specialists implemented by means of continuous self-education. Nowadaysthere is a need for active and competent professionals ready for permanent self-development and self-education. One of the promising directions of improving the quality of language education in higher school is the formation of foreign language self-educational competence of students.

The article deals with the approaches to the issue of organization of network interaction formsof preschooland additional educational institutions. The stages in development of preschool educational organizationare describedbased on the potential of additional education. The article proves the value of network partnership to ensure the unity of approaches in the educational practice in the development of a child’s individual characteristics, updating the content and methods of preschool and secondary education.

The article deals with theurgent issue of forming the communicative skills of students in the learning process. It proves the effectiveness of team learning activities as the means of development of communicative skills of younger students. Special attention is paid to the algorithm of teamwork at different stages of a lesson in primary school.

The article deals with organization and methodology of students’ research work at an integrated Russian language and literature lesson. It describes the etymological nature of the terms “study”, “investigation”, “research” and a category place of students’ research work in the system of school education. The authors identify the components of research work of students, which are problem-based learning, business gameand research work. The positive aspects of organization of students’ research work in the classroom, the methodological techniques and approaches to its implementation are under consideration.

The article deals with the need for metadisciplinary approach to the study of the history of the Russian literary language. Due to the correlation of the linguistic and socio-cultural aspects of the formation and development of the Russian literary language,the metadisciplinarypotential of the discipline allows successful forming of thegeneral cultural competences of the students and contributes to the vocational orientation of future philologists in the modern heterogeneous communicative environment.

The article dealswith the urgent issue of teaching Russian to students from the Asian and Pacific region. It characterizes the cultural and psychological features of students from the Asian and Pacific region and proves the necessity of hermeneutic methods, which are adequate to these features.

The article deals with various interpretations of the concept of multicultural education, the characteristics in the understanding of this process in foreign and domestic research.

The article deals with the pedagogy of adventures (often translated as “pedagogy of experience”), which is a relatively new, innovative direction of the contemporary foreign pedagogy, at an independent level of the scientific and theoretical study and practice-based learning in the definitions of interdisciplinary character. The development of pedagogy of adventures in Germany in the historical experience is under consideration in the article.

The article deals with the discursive category “politeness - impoliteness” in relation to the American political discourse. In the modern political discourse we find an ambivalent attitude to the ethical and moral values that have long served as a model of the verbal behaviour not only of politicians, but also of journalists, commentators etc. In this regard, the traditional notions of politeness and political correctness can no longer be considered a benchmark.

Russian media speech has various means of nomination of modern politicians. In the texts of mass media we can find both general and individual nominations. The general nominations are job titles. The previous or parallel positions of politicians can also be noted. As for the reflection of politicians’ personalities, there are significant differences reflecting the diversity of the biographies.

The articled deals with one of the most important directions of development of the Russian agricultural terminology - changes in contents of word marks related to agrarian subjects, which in the period of establishment of agronomy as a science (XVIII-XIX centuries) were associated with the following processes: appearance of semantic neologisms of verbal units of the agricultural sphere, narrowing the semantic structure of the studied lexemes, gaining some special agricultural meaning in the national language, etc. The semantic transformations in the agricultural vocabulary of the Russian language during the establishment of agriculture took place under the influence of some extralinguistic factors.

The actualization of the signs, superstitions, beliefs of the Upper Don is associated with the category of subjectivity as text forming and text organizing. Various manifestations of the subject in texts is under consideration (the subject of the action / the object of monitoring and narrator). Special attention is paid to the differentiating property of the category of subjectivity.

The article deals with the image of a mother and motherhood in animated films. The research is relevant due to the description of verbal and non-verbal means of actualization of these values that undergo the transformation due to the appearance of new characters and behaviour patterns in children’s TV industry. A child’s worldview includes the designed values, which will make the personal and collective axiosphere.

The article deals with the contexts focused on the development of the thematic component of the theme and rhema text structure in sentences and paragraphs, and identifies the language bearers of the thematic progression. It is proved that the lexical and semantic bearers of the thematic plan for a newspaper text are repetitions, paraphrase, deixis. Parallel constructions, passive constructions, inversions are structural and syntactic means of expressing text themes.

The ergonimicon of multi-ethnic cities is viewed as a dynamic and bright indicator of social processes, history and culture of the ethnic group. The author suggests the classification of the producing bases of the ergonimicon of Belfast in comparison with ergonimicon of Kazan. The symmetry of ergonimicon of the cities is displayed in the tendency to preserve the names of the historical objects and the tendency towards loanwords from foreign languages.

The article deals with the linguistic representation of the ethnic stereotypes in the German anecdotes posted on Internet websites. It covers the concept of an ethnic stereotype, the linguistic means of creating a comic effect based on German jokes, some features of representatives of various nationalities that are touched upon in anecdotes and form the ethnic stereotype in the German linguistic culture.

The article deals with the lexical devices of expressing condemnation in German language empathic Internet comments. The devices of expression of condemnation are analyzed from the point of their evaluation and emotional coloring.

The article deals with the historical and linguistic notes in French explanatory and historical dictionaries. It is proved that the lexicographic historical information is incomplete, secondary, approximate. The author substantiates the necessity to develop and improve the dictionaries based on new scientific achievements in scriptology.

The article deals with the ways of functioning of verbs of motion in comparison with the Russian language. There are the following categories of verbs of motion in the Evenki language based on semantics: 1) the direction of motion without a purpose (moving in the snow, the mountains, abstract concepts of motion); 2) targeted motion; 3) motion characteristics; 4) motion on the earth, water etc.

The article deals with the features of structural and semantic organization and pragmatic orientation of political texts of the Second World War. The research conducted on the material of the propaganda posters of the Soviet Union, Germany and the USA, helped to identify the national and cultural features of the compositional organization and the most typical incentive images for posters.

The article deals with the features of the first French translation of the poem by N.V. Gogol “Dead Souls” and its impact on the perception of the significant work of Russian literature in the French cultural space. Some significant omissions of the translator E. Moreau that significantly reduced the lyrical aspect of the poem contributed to the formation of the distorted idea of the work.

The article deals with the evolution of the theme of the Russian way in the poetry by Balmont: from the confrontation of the Russian plain horizontal and vertical path of the poet, a “winged son” of Russia - to the attainment of the path of a poet as one of the landmarks of the Russian way. The symbols of the Russian way are identified in the article.

The article deals with the genre, typological features of the works by Merezhkovsky “Instead of a Preface. The tragedy of Sophocles “Oedipus the King”, “The Tragedy of Chastity and Lust”, “Daphnis and Chloe”. These works are considered to be literary studies (the genre is interpretation research). Merezhkovsky examines them for compliance with the canons of the ancient poetics, finds out the idea, forms of conflict, includes the works in a broad cultural context.

The article deals with the techniques by which a famous poet, memoirist and critic V. Khodasevich creates the image of Maxim Gorky in his memoirs. In the centre of the author’s reasoning there is a specific character of the creative “I”, a particular image of the author. It is shown that the plot-forming element in creating the image is the ratio of the documentary and fiction origins.

The article deals with the ways of creating the image of a legendary Stalingrad pilot L.V. Litvyak in fiction and documentary literature of the new Millennium.

The article deals with the “1984” binary opposition generated by the types of space. The semantics of the song “Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree” and the poem about the bells are under consideration. The analysis established that the sound image of the bell ringing as presented both in the music ecphrasis (song) and in the poem sets the audial and dynamic model of text and reflects the key themes of the work.

The article deals with the history of the family waqf in the Islamic world and in Dagestan in particular. There are some examples of the sources where the waqf as a type of ownership is described - bookish and land. The causes for the family waqf and its purpose are given in the article.

Based on various sources and literature, the article deals with the position of the Russian military administration in the issue of restoration of villages abandoned by the residents during the military operations in the Kumyk possession in the 1840s - early 1850s. As evidenced by the data presented here, this position was varied depending on the situation and was significantly changed by the end of the Caucasian war. Rich factual material, quotations from archival sources and their analysis are given in the article.

The article deals with the activities of the Orenburg Zemstvo in the issues of primary and extracurricular education of non-Russian peoples. In particular, the author examines the experience of the department formed in 1915 as part of the Board of education of the Orenburg Zemstvo. Due to the efforts of the staff of the department, there were opened libraries, organized the national reading courses, lectures for adults in their native language.

The article represents a brief history of the magazine “Children’s Aid”, its main headings, reflects the issue associated with the features of reflection of the regional charity on the pages of national magazines in the last third of the XIX century in the Russian Empire. The features of reflection of charity activities of people under age in the Novgorod and Pskov provinces are under consideration.

The article deals with the activities of the party and Soviet authorities and administration in Cossack districts suffering from the famine of 1921-1922. The causes and consequences of hunger, the forms and methods of struggle are found out, the evaluation of involvement of church and foreign charity organizations in elimination of famine consequences is given.

During the Great Patriotic War, the German army occupied a number of Cossack regions of Southern Russia, including the areas inhabited by the Don Cossacks. The German occupation authorities hoped for the Cossacks’ support and conducted special ideological propaganda. In the difficult conditions of the occupation, the civilian population of the Cossack villages and provinces was focused primarily on the strategy of survival. The lack of evidence of mass voluntary transitions of the Cossacks to the side of the occupiers proves the Pro-Soviet mood of the Cossack population.