Purpose. Intensification of intercultural contacts between the representatives of different countries, organizations and companies has caused significant changes in the system of professional training of future specialists in various spheres of human activity. In particular, we are talking about the training of officers of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine. State border crossing points, which are categorized as international, interstate and local, have all the features of a multicultural environment. Taking all this into account, the author of the article draws the attention to the necessity of training future specialists of the border guard service for the activity in the conditions of multicultural environment, on the formation of their valuable attitude to multiculturalism of the world, on the formation and development of toler- ance, on the ability of interethnic communication, communicability, on the ability to find common ground with a com- munication partner, on preventing conflict situations and solving them, on the development of respect for the interlocu- tor. Methodology. For the purpose of qualitative preparation of future specialists of border guard service to act in the conditions of multicultural environment the general scientific and special methods were used in the research. As theo- retical methods we used generalization and systematization of scientific and methodical national and foreign literature on the topic of the research. To find out the attitude of cadets to the cultural diversity of the world, the need to learn the basics of behaviour in situations of cultural intersection, the importance of foreign language skills in our study there were used testing, questioning, surveys and interviews; for statistical data processing – mathematical methods. Results. The article summarizes the results of the analysis of theoretical sources of Ukrainian and foreign scholars on the im- portance of multicultural education, on the formation of skills to properly work in a multicultural environment, as well as on tolerance and the considerable attention is given to its formation in the article. The peculiarities of multicultural training of future specialists of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine for professional activity in the educational environment of the higher military educational institution are presented. Originality. The author draws attention to the importance of the disciplines of the humanities cycle, in particular the foreign (English) language, in the implementa- tion of multicultural education. Sample tasks, the effectiveness of which has been tested in the study, are offered. To increase cognitive interest in multicultural education, the cadets performed creative assignments using their own crea- tivity and the capabilities of the Internet. Considerable attention is paid to such a form of group work as training. Prac- tical value. It has been proven that training provides active interaction between the instructors and the cadets, between the cadets themselves, and increases their (cadets’) creative potential.