The article deals with the issues of psychological and pedagogical training of a vocalist student for a concert performance, which is not only the result and the culmination of the long work on the concert programme, but also an indicator of the quality of the performance, vocational and pedagogical training at the university.

The article deals with the issue of teaching students for vocational guidance in teaching biology. It describes the potential of the discipline “Vocational Guidance in Teaching Biology to School Students” in training of future teachers for career-oriented work.

The article deals with the didactic barriers impeding the successful vocational socialization of students from the People’s Republic of China, as well as pedagogically appropriate ways to overcome them in the process of studying pedagogical disciplines. It is proved that overcoming the didactic barriers is facilitated by the semantic work with texts and lexical units, the use of teaching methods adequate to the socio-cultural characteristics of foreign students.

The article deals with the scientific ideas about the readiness of future primary school teachers for interaction with parents, due to external and internal factors of the pedagogical reality. It describes various approaches to defining the concept of “readiness of future primary school teachers for pedagogical interaction with parents”, proves the choice of some certain essential characteristics of the phenomenon; makes the conclusions indicating the ambiguous understanding and interpretation of this concept; considers the choice of levels of research of this issue: functional (state) or personal (features).

The article deals with the issues of organization of research work of students in the aspect of the standards of higher education and vocational standards of a teacher. It describes the general approaches in training for the master’s programme “Physics Education” of the Volgograd State Socio-Pedagogical University to the organization of research work based on the principles of innovation and telecommunication. It presents an example of the event and modular models of training.

The article deals with the aspects of projecting the educational environment. It describes the historical experience of scientists and teachers practicing in pedagogical projecting, presents the content analysis of the research key notions - “educational environment” and “pedagogical projecting”. The results of the study are the interpretation of the terms “pedagogical projecting”, “computer-oriented environment”, finding out the stages, principles, basic blocks of computer-oriented environment.

The article deals with the issues and prospects of using the multimedia interactive posters as multi-dimensional didactic tools for teaching children to illustrate fairy-tale literature. The issues related to the advantages of their use at the lessons of fine arts to ensure the activity of students and the highest level of visibility are under consideration in the article. It also presents the experience of creation and use of multimedia interactive posters at the lessons of fine arts.

The article presents the research results associated with the analysis of the reasons for successful inclusion of disabled students in the educational process. It reveals the problem of readiness of teaching staff to organize the educational process for disabled people. The authors propose the system of measures for better adaptation of disabled students, for development of readiness of teachers and universities to provide educational services to people with special needs.

The article deals with the urgent issue of systematic development of disabled children with good intellect. It substantiates the role of purposeful pedagogical assistance in the formation of research skills of disabled students, which contributes to their personal development and effective self-actualization in their future educational and professional activities. In this regard, the article presents the methodological bases and ways of implementation of research activities in ecology as one of the possible and effective ways of intellectual development of children with disabilities, formation of their research skills.

The article deals with the issue of ethno-pedagogical features of intercultural communication of the youth. It describes the features of the main regulatory and methodological documents that reveal the process of ethnopedagogization in education.

The article deals with the concept “culture of international communication”, describes the levels of influence of one culture on another in the process of intercultural communication of children of various nationalities, the forms of musical education of children of various nationalities.

The article deals with the issue of formation of the environmental responsibility in students in the course “Geography of Russia”, due to the orientation of modern education on the personal development of students, as well as the trend of integration into its content the issues of sustainable development. It presents the sequence and technology of ecological responsibility development, the guidelines for implementation of the technology at the lesson organized following the FSES.

The article deals with the urgent issue of using the project method in the subject area “Technology” in terms of education renewal. Based on the research of scientific literature, it presents the analysis of the historical stages of the origins and application of the project method in school education in the aspect of methodological support of this process. The author proves the relevance of the project method and the effectiveness of its application in education in accordance with the position of foreign and domestic researchers.

The article presents the study confirming the importance of training a trustee when taking a child into a substitute family. The level of competence of close relatives is identified as insufficient for full performance of parental functions, which determines the importance of training. The features of the blood substitute family are determined in order to obtain positive results, the need for specification of materials and correction of their transfer technology.

Interpretation is a new aspect of teaching Russian as a foreign language. It is becoming more and more important in China. The article presents the review of textbooks on the Russian language interpretation used in Chinese universities. It describes the features of their structure and contents.

The article deals with the derivational relation between the nominal and real meanings of words. It covers the issue of the relation of severity / heuristics in the algorithms of generation of new words. It is proved that the semantic paradigm of the word is a multilayer stratification of meanings. It is indicated that the initial meaning of the word, which is usually the first in the dictionary entry, is the initial meaning of this last period.

The article deals with the lexical semantic group “Sweets” in the Russian language. This lexical semantic group is considered in the diachronic aspect - from the Old Russian period to the modern Russian language. Various changes in the semantics of the lexemes of this group are under consideration in the article.

The article presents the experimental study of lexical semantic and stylistic characteristics of vocabulary from the standpoint of the systematic approach. It is revealed that the meanings of the words with lexical semantic synonyms are more expressively and stylistically marked than the meanings of words without such synonyms. There is a relation between marking of the meanings of words by various classes of stylistic marks and the word polysemy.

The article presents the comparative onomasiological analysis of the names of TV programmes of the Russian and British TV. It describes the principles and methods of nomination of TV programmes, the dependence of the nominative preferences of name givers on the region of broadcasting of TV programmes.

The article deals with the Russian fixed comparisons with the standards “boy, “kid” and “baby” against the background of their counterparts in the Chinese language to identify the similarities and differences of the bases of fixed comparisons with same models in the two languages, as well as the motivation of the choice of bases in the two linguistic cultures due to the universal features of boys and babies of any nationality and stereotypes of the speakers of the two languages.

The article deals with the issue of the gender reflection in the language phraseology, the concept of phraseological units with the gender component. It presents their classification based on semantics. In the context of the phraseothematic groups, the traits and specific behaviour of men and women determined by society are under consideration in the article. As the result, it proves the potential of phraseological units with the gender component to represent the linguistic reality and the national culture.

The article presents a brief description of beer as a typical German product, which is in the centre of the German language gluttony and reflects the ethnic, linguosemiotic and communicative specificity in general. The ethnospecific nature of the rituals of beer drinking is under consideration. This drink is also researched as a product of the linguoculture in terms of origins for phraseological units.

The article deals with the main stages of development of a British house as a construction and as a socio-cultural phenomenon. The means of nomination of the thematic group “house” / “home” in the English language are described in the article.

The article deals with the language means used to form the image of a Russian politician D.A. Medvedev in the texts of the English language press. The methods of constructing the image of a politician with regard to its linguistic component are under consideration. It is proved that in the structure of the image of the Russian politician in the English language press there are external characteristics, professional and personal qualities, which are actualized in the media texts in the aspect of the conceptual content, figurative and perceptive features of the politician, his evaluation characteristics.

The article deals with the structural features of the mass media neologisms of the English language. It describes 9 main morphological methods of word formation of neologisms. The most productive ways of word formation are word composition, affixation, contamination. Truncations, acronyms, conversion have less productivity. The lowest percentage are abbreviations, doublings and reverse derivation.

The article deals with the issue of expressing the category of certainty-uncertainty in the opposition of accusative and genitive cases. The dependence of the reasons for the choice of accusative or genitive case on the meaning of certainty-uncertainty is described. The category of certainty-uncertainty is considered by the example of Russian texts and their translations into Persian; the examples of the expression of this category in the Russian language and their correlates in the Persian language are presented. The authors carry out the comparative analysis of the examples and their translations, find out the similarities, differences and shades of meaning in the expression of certainty-uncertainty in the Russian and Persian languages.

The article presents the theoretical and practical aspects of comparative lexicography by the example of the Russian-Tatar-English-Spanish illustrated dictionary for children. The basic principles of bilingual lexicography and methods of their implementation are under consideration. This lexicographical work of 300 entries will be provided with illustrative colouring pictures for better mastering the material by schoolchildren.

The article deals with the general issues relating to development of bilingual Dargin dictionaries, and special issues associated with the definition of the vocabulary and structure of a dictionary entry. The author touches upon the development of glossary closely connected with the formation and development of both lexicology and literary language. The author summarizes own experience in creating dictionaries, proves the need to develop the new ones.

The main principle of the modern Internet communication is the rational use of time and language. In this regard, each level of language is undergoing some significant changes for successful development of the Internet communication. The article deals with the graphic, spelling and punctuation features of construction and design of the Internet discourse in the English, Turkish and Russian languages.

Based on the analysis of the information programmes of the federal and regional (Dagestan) television, the article deals with the issues of preparation and creation of news programmes. It describes the features of the regional TV news programmes by the example of GTRK, RGVK “Dagestan” and NNT, where the main attention is paid to official regional events. The role of the federal channels in coverage of various information programmes is under consideration in the article.

The article presents an overview of areas of study of language functioning in the Internet space. Special attention is paid to the approach, the main concept of which is the genre. The necessity to differentiate the technical parameters and language characteristics is emphasized. As a result, the structure of the Internet platform is proposed, which allows to focus on the verbal forms of communication.

The article deals with the chronotope of the madhouse as one of the main ones in the organization of the novel “The Master and Margarita” by M.A. Bulgakov. The temporal category is presented in various forms (historical, biographical, folklore, fairy-tale, mystical, literary time). The space is extremely diverse (otherworldly, mythical, game). The chronotope of the madhouse performs a genre and plotting function.

The article deals with the typology of women’s images in the novel by G. Ibragimov “The Fate of the Tatar”. The author analyzes and characterizes the artistic ways of creating women’s images from the point of their national identity, raises the problem of women’s emancipation.

The article deals with the first six years of the reign of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich. His first task was the necessity to calm and pacify the country. By establishing the new and reforming the old authorities, there was established a stable structure of power: the tsar, the Zemsky Sobor and the Boyar Duma. The government filled the Treasury through withdrawal of the requested and pyatina money, which actually meant the restoration of the state by the forces of the whole nation.

The article deals with the role and importance of one of the leading public entities of Dagestan - the Derbent khanate - in the historical events that took place in the North-East Caucasus in the XVIII - beginning of XIX centuries. It describes the place of Derbent and its neighborhood during the period of the two international events in the region - the Caspian campaign of Peter the Great and the struggle of the mountaineers of Dagestan for independence from Nader Shah. Great attention is paid to the policy of Derbent rulers - Fatali Khan and his son Shih-Ali Khan in foreign policy. The work is limited by the beginning of the XIX century, when Derbent became a part of Russia in 1806.

The article deals with the main types of occupations of the Kyura residents, the economic situation of the Kyura in the late XVIII - early XIX century, as well as the trade and economic relations with neighbouring nations. It describes the development of agriculture as the main activity in the plains and foothills. The development of cattle breeding, which is of exceptional importance for the Kyura residents, is under consideration in the article. A brief analysis of the development of local crafts of great importance for the unions of rural communities of southern Dagestan is given in the article.

In the context of the Russian historical tradition based on the articles by P.N. Milyukov, published in the collection “From the History of the Russian Intellectuals”, the article presents the analysis of his views on the sources and origins of Russian liberalism.

The article deals with the formation and development of the Russian avant-garde in art during the period of Russia’s participation in the First World War (1914-1918) and the influence of war on the development of the “left” movement in art. It describes the participation of artists in military events and the attitude of artists to the war. The influence of war on the content of their work and the participation of avant-garde artists in propaganda activities are under consideration in the article.

The article deals with the issue of providing the agriculture of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR with personnel during the Great Patriotic War. In order to compensate for the shortage of labour in rural areas, the authorities widely employed students and workers, as well as women and teenagers in agricultural work. Great attention was paid to the improvement of the system of training of qualified personnel for rural areas. The deportation of Chechens and Ingush for several years exacerbated the shortage of workers in rural areas.

The article deals with the issue of studying and preserving the cultural legacy. In the course of the analysis of the achievements and losses of the regional cultural legacy of Tsaritsyn - Stalingrad - Volgograd in the first decades of Soviet power, as well as the damage caused to the Stalingrad region during the Second World War, the attention is focused on the civil responsibility of the government, society and individuals for the preservation of historical and cultural monuments as a sign of historical memory, which is the basis of the cultural code of the nation.

In the first years after the collapse of the USSR, many new state entities emerged in the territory of the former Soviet Union. The article deals with the foreign policy reasons for emergence of states with limited recognition in the post-Soviet space. The goal of the study is to identify the key foreign policy factors and describe their impact on the process of formation of states with limited recognition.