The paper discusses the role of Armenian merchants in the development of Russia-East trade throughDagestan. The main sites of Armenian merchants’ trade in Caspian Dagestan are shown, the role of Armenian merchants in the development of the Russian-Dagestan trade is analysed, the range of goods, routes of the Armenian merchants and their role in establishing new trade and diplomatic ways betweenRussiaand Eastern countries is characterized.

In the XX century the research work in the Russian and later Soviet archives and libraries entailed great difficulties for foreign researchers. Under these circumstances the efforts of Westerns scholars aimed at creating archives and book collections of "Rossica" in their own countries were of key importance. The purpose of the paper is to review main collections of documentary materials and printed editions on pre-revolutionary history ofSiberiain foreign countries in order to make an objective evaluation of historical sources available to Western researchers. The author shows that such collections of materials connected with the early period of Siberian history have been deposited in the archives and libraries funds inCanada,Great Britain,Germany, and other countries. The largest collections of "Rossica" and "Sibirica" are located in the USA - in the Library of Congress; Harvard and Yale Universities; the University of Hawaii and the UC Berkeley; the University of Alaska Fairbanks; Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University; the National Archives in Washington, DC etc. For the most part these documentary collections appeared owing to the efforts of researchers who came fromRussia– F. A. Golder, M. Z. Vinokouroff, B. A. Bakhmeteff, G. A. Lensen, A. Ya. Gutman-Gan, V. Lado-Motsarskiy, A. S. Lukashkin and others. Western researchers compensated certain limitations of available sources on Siberian history by using the published materials, translating historical documents into English and German. With all the variety of sources on Siberian history kept in the archives and book collections outside Russia, Western historians still have the tasks of further expansion of source base, more active cooperation with the research centres, archives and libraries in Russia.

The paper deals with a comparative analysis of housing funds of cities and towns in Kemerovo region. The nature of cities / towns development is revealed; the information regarding the characteristic of living conditions and the level of housing improvements of townspeople is presented. The common and distinctive features of everyday life of the urban population are revealed. The paper notes the role and efforts of the party leadership concerning the housing problem solving at the initial stage as well as at the final stage of the Great Patriotic War. The attention is paid to the living conditions in the dormitories.

The government began to organize a system of spa treatment since the late1920. Acertain number of rooms was reserved for each province. Senior officials ofTomskprovince were treated at the South and Siberia resorts.Seventeen comrades fromTomskProvincehad a rest at the South resorts during the 1923 summer season. Since 1922 twenty seats were reserved for the provincial officials at the Siberian resorts. Siberian health resorts mostly provided health services to officials of the district level.

The paper is devoted to the main directions of research activities at “Tomskaya Pisanitsa” museum-reserve, examining the role of the museum as a research institution. The author discusses the museum’s role of a museum-research center for collecting, storung and researching copies of images from rock art sites of Siberia and Central Asia.

The paper presents the process of political development of the indigenous peoples ofWestern Siberiaafter their inclusion in Muscovite state. It is concluded, that after the accession of Western Siberia Russian imperial administration gradually became the main subject of political life. This was done by gradually diluting the real power of local princes, active work with the aboriginal elites and the positioning of theMoscowtsar as a natural successor of power in the Khanate of Siberia.

The paper analyzes the published archaeological materials characterizing the state of military affairs of ancient nomads ofKazakhstan. The author discusses some problems in the study of this direction of archaeological science inKazakhstan, whose solution will allow to fully assess the dynamics of growth of nomads’ military affairs. This work is the first comprehensive analysis of the items of equipment and protective clothing originating from theterritoryofKazakhstanwith prior conclusions about the value of the materials for the reconstruction of the military affairs of the population ofEurasia.

The paper attempts to identify and show the place, the importance and role ofKabardino-BalkariaRepublicintelligentsia in the development of democratic reforms and government-society relations in the late 20th century. The author identifies the problems and errors in the process of rapprochement, the degree of participation of government and society in the public political life of the republic (with the example of intelligentsia).

The paper focuses on challenges and perspectives of cooperation betweenRussiaand NATO countries within NATO-Russia Council. The author studies the main indicators of cooperation among the countries. Special attention is paid to cooperation programmes of NATO-Russia Council against terrorism. Basing on the cooperation dynamics analysis, the author draws the frameworks of cooperation perspectives in the near future.

The experience of collaboration between 19th-century parents and teachers on the issue of upbringing is presented in the paper. The authors show that the collaboration in many gymnasias and schools of the 19th century had outstanding results. The results of investigation of the process of co-operation between school teachers and students’ parents at schools № 21, 52, 65 in the town of Lipetsk are provided. The aim of the research is evaluating the modern state of the process of co-operation, understanding the essence of teacher-parent co-operation, using the basic forms and methods, presence and using of experience in the process of co-operation.

The paper describes the monitoring of the state of female students’ arms power muscles with the use of the methods aimed at improving muscle strength abilities of the shoulder girdle. Methods: pedagogical experiment, testing, statistical data processing. Materials. Performing the standards set by the GTO requires constant maintenance of good physical fitness of the population. Due to the introduction of GTO complex in educational institutions, the effectiveness of the system of physical education will increase in general. Physical education in universities as the final educational institution implies that in addition to preparation for performing GTO standards students are taught various tools to maintain and enhance their physical fitness in the future. This involves an introduction to systematic studies, the formation of the necessary knowledge and skills. The Results. Experimental data confirmed the effectiveness of the proposed method by which power performance arm muscles improved; consequently, the results of performing such exercises as ‘push-up in front leaning support’ and ‘pull up from the low’. Conclusion. This paper describes a technique aimed at increasing the level of the shoulder girdle strength abilities of students, the use of which will help their performance of the GTO arm strength standard exercises with a higher grade.

The study revealed the initial level of physical fitness and motivation in physical culture among of secondary vocational institutions female students, and grounded the set of exercises for students’ independent work in Physical Education classes.

The paper focuses on the major social tendencies influencing the document and the modernization of the documentations theory. The author argues that these tendencies form a new documentation reality, a new kind of document structure, and demand new professional skills and qualifications to be addressed in the system of education.

The paper considers the possibility of the formation of common cultural and professional competences of future professionals for the tourism industry formed during training certain groups of subjects of the 43.03.02 «Tourism» curriculum through students’ participation in relevant volunteer projects.

The paper presents the perspectives of future physical culture and sports professionals’ professional competence formation in the conditions of the continuous practice on the basis of shortcomings in the training of graduates identified in the survey of employers.

The paper deals with correlation and mutual development of philosophy and pedagogics. The aim of the work is to show integration of philosophical and pedagogical knowledge. Examples of adaptation of some philosophical ideas to the issues of upbringing and education, the emergence and development of the Russian system of spiritual upbringing and scientific education of a person are given in the work.

The paper discusses the phenomenon of paternity in the context of traditional and modern approaches to understanding masculinity as normative reference. Fatherhood is represented as a social institution, where the man has to meet certain rights, duties, requirements, social standards and cultural stereotypes in the education process.

The paper reveals some of the pre-conditions for teaching socially useful work in the context of the analysis of current legislative and methodical documents, namely: the presence of the target component of socially useful work in the Federal standard and legal documents; the expansion of school educational system with additional educational programmes and extracurricular activities; filling the content aspect of of extracurricular activities syllabi with various types of community work.

The paper addresses the problem of qualitative selection of applicants in the Olympic Reserve College by defining the status of professional identity. The concept of professional identity of applicants the Olympic Reserve College is treated as a complex personality mechanism. It causes the formation of a personality fit for the academic, athletic and professional activity. It is important to define the professional identity at the selection stage for studying in the college according to the following criteria: professional self-determination, professional qualifications, professionally important qualities. The aim of the study was the identification of professional identity among students entering the Olympic Reserve College. The paper presents the results of a study of professional identity of the Olympic Reserve College applicants. The study showed that most students have an average uncertain status of professional identity. That is, not all the applicants compare themselves to the requirements of the chosen profession. The results suggest that the training should be targeted to develop the professional identity of future specialists as one of the leading criteria of formation of the professional’s individuality.

Psychology, Head of the Department of Social Work, Azov Branch of Russian State Social University.

The paper discusses the results of a study aimed at investigating the specifics of interpersonal interaction in conflict families. As part of the study of the problem, the following tests and methods were used: the test ‘Are You a Conflict Personality?’, the test ‘Self-Assessment of Constructive Interaction in Marital Relations’, the strategy of behavior in the conflict has been studied by J. G. Scott’s method. The paper presents an analysis of constructive engagement in the marital relationship, indicated by the influence of the level of conflict in the opportunity to lead constructive interpersonal family relationships. A part of the study examined the work of experts in social work with conflict families in the “Family therapy” programme. Respondents were taught tactics of restrained behavior. Tactics of restrained behavior include: the ability to find consensus in family relations, correcting respondents’ worldview, teaching cooperative communication skills. The specialist-mediator used the methods of ‘yes-therapy’ and ‘sculptural group’, ‘the procedure of directed change’ and the method of ‘family agreement’. The results of the studies show that not all types of family dysfunctions are amenable to correction. In this regard, the authors came to the conclusion about the impossibility of predicting the impact of conflict-free communication training. Results of the study are relevant for use in the settlement of family conflicts and can be used for family mediation and in correction of interpersonal behavior.

The paper deals with specific features of the Shor epic tradition. The storyteller himself is participating in the events taking place in the epic world: he gives his assessments of the events and makes remarks addressing the epic characters. It is important to determine the extent of such involvement of the storyteller and his possible impact on the life of epic characters. As observations show, the epic narrative of the storyteller is not “fossilized”, it gives evidence on his individual style. But although the storyteller A. P. Napazakov perfectly knows traditional epic beginning and finishing segments, he nevertheless might leave out some details while telling a story. For a storyteller who sends an alyp ‘warrior’ on his heroic way, the main thing is not to leave him alone on this way and bring him safely back.

The paper discusses the postmodern technique of deconstruction in the poetics of the novel «Palisandre» (1985) by the Russian writer of the third wave of literary emigration Sasha Sokolov. The deconstruction of Soviet history and its myths about social progress refers to the author’'s philosophy of history, understood as an endless and meaningless repetition of the same events, historical theatre, gridlock and chaos. Sokolov de-automatizes the value of the time-history as the progressive movement and as a harmonious development of the civilization.

The paper deals with the description of the Moon metaphors included into the vegetative code of the Russian linguistic culture. Signs underlying the creation of such metaphors are explained from the mythology and symbolism perspective. Vegetative metaphor of the Moon can be represented as several blocks: 1. Metaphors of fruit. 2. Metaphors of ripeness. 3. Metaphors of phases of vegetation. 4. Mythological metaphors from precedent texts (Greek apple of discord, the biblical apple from the tree of knowledge of good and evil). 5. Metaphors of vegetative colors. The modern literature is used as an illustrative material. One of the sources of language material is the Russian National Corpus (www.ruscorpora.ru) served.

The paper is devoted to case forms in the speech varieties of the Telengit dialect which is one of the southern dialects of the Altai language. Allomorphs of cases in these speech varieties have the differential signs are based on various phonetic options, which allows to distinguish them from other speech varieties of the Altai language. Affixes of cases in the speech varieties of the Telengit dialect of Kosh-Agach and Ulagan areas in comparison to the Altai literary language and the speech variety of the Altai-Kizhi dialect of the Onguday area show the specific features, on the one hand, uniting these dialects, opposing them to the literary language, on the other hand, showing territorial features of speech varieties of Kosh-Agach and Ulagan areas. The paper aims at identifying the morphonological variation of caseforms in speech varieties of the Telengit dialect of the Altai language and comparison of the received material to the Altai literary language which is the standard of the written Altai language, and with the speech variety of the Onguday area of the Altai-Kizhi dialect which despite being the basis for the literary language keeps dialect features. Research of case forms of speech varieties of the Telengit dialect in comparison to the Altai literary language shows such specific features uniting these dialects among themselves as existence of options with labialized vowels in the Genitive and the Accusative cases and the existence of affixes with longs in the Dative-Lative case. Thus, for the speech variety of Ulagan area the cases which are not found in the speech varieties of Kosh-Agach area are characteristic, which opposes these speech varieties to each other. So, the characteristic features of the speech varieties of the Ulagan area are the affixes with initial -d after bases on vowels in the Genitive and the Accusative cases, existence of short forms after bases on consonant in affixes of the Aenitive and the Ablative cases, and the absence of lip harmony for affixes with wide vowels, which allows to allocate only two options of an affix in the Dative-Lative, Locative, Aenitive and Ablative cases in this speech variety.

Ivan Bunin’s little-investigated lyrics of his latest creative period appear to be the matter of this paper. Mostly, the attention is paid to the conception of “young senility”, which is considered as a variant of the “circle” idea. The latter is central in Bunin’s late lyrics and structures it as a single whole. The actualization of “young senility” is a result of the poet’s effort to decline the conventionalities of art, to get over the gap between word and reality, to represent properly the incompleteness and endlessness of life and his own attitude towards it. “Young senility”, as an oxymoron, proves to be not only a poetical abolition of senility and a denotation of life’s timelessness, but also implies the intensive sense of distant memory and metempsychosis experienced by the protagonist. Along with this conception go such motives as spring garden in blossom, youth, first love (or memories of it), and the protagonist’s soteriological reflections. The motif of ever-renewing life, being one of the prevailing motives in Bunin’s lyrics, gets particularly evident against the previous poems (written in the 1910s). The protagonist and his beloved one attend this world cyclically, which is confirmed by the poetization of timeandspace turnover, as well as by the enrichment of subject organization (the impersonal self and poems about former poems, herein cited). All this corresponds with the lyrical self’s antinomic idea of its own finiteness and endlessness.

The purpose of the paper is researching linguistic philosophy genesis. The ancient doctrines are used as research base. Methodology: The basic hypothesis is a concept, which implies the interrelation between language and thinking. Analysis for the presence of this concept is carried out. The subjects of inquiry are Xenophanes, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Democritus, the Sophists, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics and Chrisippos’ proceedings. Historical analysis is based on the original sources, as well as on the findings of subsequent research. Findings: The interrelation between language and thinking was first discussedin the pre-Socratic period. This concept saw multidimensional investigation in the antique proceedings. Direct and dialectical interrelations between language and thinking, as well as ethical and psychological aspects are discovered. Theoretical value: The results stimulate the in-depth study of linguistic philosophy history. They contribute to the formation of fuller appreciation of its process of establishment.

The paper deals with the strategy of G. Grebenshchikov’s auto-myth-making. The beginner Siberian writer constructed a myth about «a writer from the common people», using which he accomplished the task of entering the literary world. The author came to the conclusion that the key feature of making up a literary biography became a negative identification concerning the intelligentsia which occupied the position of a symbolic «enemy» of the writer.

The paper analyzes the features of verbal improvisation in the speech of politicians. The comparative analysis of written primary speech texts the texts said by the governor of theKemerovoregion A. G. Tuleyev is carried out. Primary texts are compared with secondary, basic elements of the speaker’s improvisation are found. The analysis showed that the speaker builds the speech according to the importance of information for the particulat event at which a speech is delivered. By means of the speech activity the speaker seeks to optimize the act of speech influence, carrying out the internal disciplinary principle of rhetoric – the principle of efficiency.

The paper considers the role and significance of the talent of a story-teller in adaptation of fairy-tale plots borrowed from Mongolian literary records to Tuvan performance tradition. The theoretic scholarly works dedicated to the study of improvisation in the art of story-tellers in epic traditions of different peoples provided a base for this article. Having studied various versions of Tuvan tales borrowed from literary sources, the author comes to a conclusion that the art of any story-teller is a combination of two basic components: traditionalism and improvisation, which are typical of folklore in general. The story-telling is connected not only with the talent of a story-teller but also with ritual and magic properties of the story. Thus, the borrowed literary plots, which penetrated Tuvan folklore in different ways, became deeply rooted in local performance tradition.

The paper deals with a German-marked mountain text in Sasha Chorny’s poetry. The confines of this chronotope are marked with a Philistine “dale” (spatial bottom) and a mountain “peak” passing into the sky (spatial top). Mountains are here a mediative locus with characteristics of idyll or pseudo-idyll. Besides, the paper demonstrates a connection between S. Chorny’s mountain text and the tradition of orography in Russian literature.

The relevance of the paper is associated with the motive of death, structure-directing for whole Rasputin's prose. The common notions about world order are imaged in the rite of passage, the most important rite in the funeral complex. The paper analyses the 1990s novels – «Into the same land» («V tu zhe zemlu»), «The day of prayer for the dead» («Pominnyj den»), «Hut» («Izba») as the most representative. The method of the research is hermeneutic. The obsequies in the late Rasputin's novels are essentially transformed. This deals with author's search of the new foundation of existence, the new protogonist who is able to survive in the chaotic world. The research revealed that the openness of the death, fusion of pagan and Christian symbols, development of the new space, which could become the foundation of the nation’s self-escape, are significant for the poetics of Rasputin’s late novels. The death of the patriarchal hero (the rite of separation) is understood as an end, but the death of old women becomes a creation of new space, transformation of existence. Intermediate rite presents the transformation of the principles through association with the afterworld. The function of the conductor, helping the deceased to join the world of the dead, is important. This role is taken by Pashuta («In the same land»), becoming the «cering being», Olka («The day of prayer for the dead»), proceeding posteriori ritual by the song, the hut («Hut») is converted into a transitional space. The rite of inclusion is permissible only after deep changes in the foundations of the present, which makes the possibility to survive. Thus, in V. Rasputin’s late texts death is revealed as a continuation of life, and life is often as a preparation for the transition. The changing of life entails the transformation of the funeral rite, which makes us to look for another model of the world.

The paper reveals structural features of synonymic terms in the field of medicine analyzing scientific material, describing clinical events in dermatology and venerеology. In the given work medical terms are investigated as synonymic rows of two, three, four, five, six and seven components, consisting of both absolute synonymic terms and eponymic synonymous terms. The results of this investigation prove the fact that most synonymic terms under study consist of two compounds, three- and four-component lexical units also compose synonymic rows. Besides, more than a half of the represented medical terms are eponymic terms.

The paper presents an aspect of lingvopersonology called “identification linguistics”. Identification linguistics originates from the universal phenomenon of identification, based on the establishment of the identity of objects, and is implemented in lingvopersonology (identification of linguistic identity) and legal linguistics (linguistic identification expertise). The requirement of objectivity and reliability of the identification output affects the emergence of a large number of authentication methods, which are presented in the opposition of specially-oriented and generic methods.

The paper is devoted to editorial aspects of planning corporate media and contains applied research. Conceptual features of corporate media are considered in terms of the priority of readers’ interests. The ratio of production and non-production headings in publications is made dependent on the degree of involvement of the potential audience in company’s business. The connection of media’s business model and its intended use is demonstrated. Practical recommendations for the formation of the creative concept of the corporate media are given. The analysis can be used by the researchers and the publishers of corporate press, PR and media experts.

The paper describes the history of the formation of the ideas about the camp prose in the scientific literature. The definition of this concept and its characteristics are presentes, based on the study of three creative works of various writers: «The resurrection of the larch» by V. T. Shalamov, «Zone» by S. D. Dovlatov, «The nomadism to death» by V. E. Maksimov. The camp prose is a thematic direction in the Russian literature during the late 1950s – 1990s XX creating an artistic image of the camp in a creative reflection of writers (witnesses, observers, those who never saw camps but studied the archives, memoirs), with the following features: common themes and issues related to existential camp environment; autobiographical character; documentary; historicism; artistic expression of the image of the camp; special space (isolation, island, hell); special human psychology, philosophical understanding of the human situation in captivity; special author’s reflection on the text.

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The addresses the poetics of the dream motifs in M. Yu. Lermontov’s works. In Lermontov’s earlier works the lyrical situations and dream symbolics were being developed. Their foundation was the Christian anthropology, which was reflected in the “night cycle” and in the range of poems, which included prophesy. In the 1837 – 1841 poems new forms of hero’s dream state appear, including visions about the past, prophesy about his own fate, which are presented as complete and visible pictures. The author’s myth is developed, in which the hero is able to overcome the Earth’s time and to unite his existence with nature and universe rhythms.

The paper is based on Yu.V. Bondarev's novel “The Non-Resistance” and deals with the issues of spiritual and moral identity. It focuses on moral choice of the characters and its tragic consequences. The paper clarifies the author's opinion on the ideas developed by the Russian philosophers – necessity to resist the evil and unjustified violence.

This paper discusses the problem of experience in the historical science, the relevance of which is due to new representations related to changes of views on the role of historical sources. Historical source is no longer considered inviolable basis – along with it, out-of-source knowledge is recognised, whose part or variety is the historical experience, experiment. The author explores the difference between the properties and content of the experience in general and the experiment as a kind of experience which has its own characteristics. The paper also shows the changes in historical science related to the existence of two main traditions (modernist and postmodernist), which led to the transformation of ideas about the possibility of using the experience in historical research In the end, the author concludes that the experience has two basic meanings: “external experience”, or experiment, and the experience which is not amenable to scientific verification but relies in the truth as a goal. With the experiment the reality of science is reproduced, so the tradition of modernism, where historical reality was considered actually existing, readily admits experimental investigation. In postmodern historical reality is not recognized as current, so it suggests using the so-called “historical experience” – the experience of feelings and experience of activity.

The paper shows that game religiousness as reaction to the currentsocial transformations leads not simply to adaptation of individuals to new conditions, but also producing original forms of sociality. The main result of this reaction is creation or reconstruction of the sense as conditions of non-disintegration of sociality, as means of prevention of its dispersion. The birth of social and religious projects of game religiousness is nothing but aspiration of individuals given a religious shape to find the strong ontologic bases of their own existence, clear coordinates of the behavior by designing of these bases. In modern conditions game religiousness gives opportunity of rather free combination of meanings and by that reveals its specific instrumental character, which allows it to act as means of social designing. At the same time, in practice of game religiousness the religious contents itself gains secondary character, and quasireligious communities become result of realization of projective activity. Manifestations of game religiousness carry out a role of constructive force, but at the same time act as means of revision and even destruction of many settled meanings and forms carried in traditional religions act. However, the latter as well contain elements of game religiousness, using them as means of social adaptation to new historical conditions and legitimation of some secular social practices.

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The paper focuses on concepts of culture in the context of quality of life. The influence of spirituality on the formation of existential needs of the person and the society is noted. The authors show that one of the tendencies of development of the state is education of the humane personality. The influence of knowledge and science on production process is noted.

The paper deals with the methodological principles of analysis of religious prophecies, as the phenomena of spiritual culture. The philosophic-cognitive approach, anf the method of ‘history of exposure’, religious-theological and hermeneutic methods which reveal its philosophical essence are described. Divine revelation logic recorded in the prophetic text is actualized.

The paper deals with the interpretation of the concept ‘education’ by Richard Stanley Peters - a representative of the British analytical philosophy of education. The uniqueness of his work lies in the fact that he first proposed to consider education as a single logical structure that includes logically interrelated concepts. Peters calls to reconsider the system of educational values and analyze them. This analysis initiates us to rethink the value of education and why it will be exactly so, what kinds of learning dispositions and skills people need in the future.

In the paper the author updated the possibility of studying global environmental problems after two dozen years of implementation of sustainable development strategies at the national and regional levels. The further research of these environmental problems cannot be only limited to the methodological approach, which leads to the fact that the opposition «economy – environment» has been formed in poor environmental conditions. The paper attempts to examine the concept of economy and ecology in their dialectical unity, which will allow to understand the ecology much wider than the economy. According to the author, this approach has several advantages.

The paper presents a historico-philosophical reconstruction of St. Augustine’s conception of natural rhythmic accomplished on the material basis of the treatises “On Music”, “On True Religion”, “The City of God”, “The Literal Meaning of Genesis”. To restore structural lacunas inSt. Augustine’s conception the congenial Neoplatonic text of Aristides Quintilianus’ treatise “On Music” is engaged. The methodological paradigm of the reconstruction is Hegel’s classical conception of philosophy of nature permitting to reveal natural rhythmic in its consecutive aspects of mechanics, physics and organics. The reconstruction displays the metaphysical trend ofSt. Augustine’s thought, characteristic of ancient philosophy in general. Its most conspicuous symptom consists in the fact that the specific rhythmic of the more developed spheres of nature – physical and organic – is deprived of its self-dependent significance: the rhythmic determinacy of physical elements as well as that of the region of vegetation and animals is reduced to the most abstract stratum – that of celestial mechanics – as the “pure” form of the realization of numerical (rhythmical) correlations in nature. The achieved results are important for comprehensive understanding of the antique metaphysical tradition as a whole.

The paper the uniqueness of the soul of the Russian culture at the turn of the 19th – 20th centuries. The author analyses of the definition of ‘soul’, ‘soul culture’, ‘the soul of the Russian culture’ and discusses the features of the soul of the Russian culture allocated in the philosophical works of O. Spengler, N. Berdyaev, I. Ilyin; and in poetic texts by S. Esenin, V. Brusov, A. Block, N. Gumilev, M. Voloshin, B. Pasternak, M. Tsvetaeva, O. Mandelstam, F. Sologub, V. Nabokov, A. Akhmatova, K. Balmont. The soul of the Russian culture of the Silver Age is layered, contradictory, megaventory, ambiguous. It is characterized as Christian humility and pagan riot; as unconditional focus on the future and the desire not to lose touch with the ‘roots’; the pursuit of the eternal, authentic, and dissolution in a fleeting, illusory; as a heightened feeling of injustice and the loss of moral values; as the quest for universal harmony and desire for natural degradation.

The paper discusses the process of the formation of the humanity as spiritual integrity and subject of activity. Thus the spiritual unity contacts the unity of consciousness, self-consciousness, generalization of various requirements, balance of interests of the purposes and ideals. The practical unity is realized in communication, in the sphere of policy, economy, social interaction. Tools by means of which humanity is formed are considered: mythology, art, rationality. The main stages of enlarging the rate and forms of communication are shown. The authors note that the formation of new forms of communication is followed by the process of the humanity’s revealing the human essence, understanding the human community. Features of the present stage of this process, its contradictions and prospects are outlined. Results of research can be used in the field of philosophical anthropology, social philosophy, global studies. The dynamism of mankind, its dependence on consciousness, consciousness and science are shown in the paper. The conclusion that further prospects of formation of mankind depend on volumes and the scale of generalization of requirements, interests, ideals is drawn.

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Review of: Kto segodnja delaet filosofiju v Rossii. Tom III (Who is now making
philosophy in Russia? Vol. 3) / by A. S. Nilogov. M.: OOO “Sam Poligrafist”, 2015. 736 p. ISBN: 978-5-00077-142-6