Polyethnic Environment Research Articles

DEMOGRAPHIC POTENTIAL OF ODESA REGION: REGIONAL FEATURES

Problem Statement and Purpose. The article highlights the issue of the demographic situation and demographic potential of the Odesa region as a leading component of its development and the development of relevant regional strategies and programs. Regional features have been established and an intra-regional analysis of the demographic potential in the conditions of administrative-territorial reform has been carried out. The prerequisites of geodemographic processes in the region were clarified and their assessment was carried out taking into account the geographical basis and subregional specificity of the multicultural and polyethnic environment. The results of the study call for a revision of the demographic policy in the region within the framework of decentralization reforms, the successful completion of which is complicated by the state of war. The purpose of the study is to analyze the demographic potential of the Odesa region in the conditions of decentralization and martial law. The object of the study is demographic processes in the Odesa region. The subject of the study is the analysis of the demographic situation and demographic potential in the Odesa region in conditions of uncertainty caused by the decentralization reform and changes in the administrative-territorial system, complicated by the state of war. Data & Methods. When writing the article, traditional general scientific research methods were used. Statistical materials of the demographic situation at the national and regional levels were used for data analysis, and statistical and specific demographic methods were used for their subject processing. Public management methods were used to analyze the demographic potential in order to make appropriate management decisions. When processing data for the obtained results, software tools of office packages (in particular, Word, Excel) were used. When analyzing and writing the proposed publication, official statistical reporting data was used. Results. Undoubtedly, after the end of the war, in order to restore Ukraine and the region in particular, in order to improve the demographic potential of the Odesa region, it is necessary to adopt the necessary regional programs aimed at increasing the birth rate, creating new jobs, improving the quality of life, reducing the mortality rate, and supporting young families. The implementation of these programs requires a systematic approach and balanced decisions on the part of regional and central authorities.

Development of Communicative Competence of Participants Educational Process in a Polyethnic Environment

Development of Communicative Competence of Participants Educational Process in a Polyethnic Environment

РОЗВИТОК ЕТНІЧНОГО ТУРИЗМУ В ПОЛІЕТНІЧНОМУ ПРОСТОРІ (НА ПРИКЛАДІ ЧЕРНІВЦІВ)

The algorithm and the methods of social-geographic study of ethnic tourism within poly-ethnic environment of a big city have been suggested. The stages to study ethnic tourism resources have been analyzed as follows: the study of geographical and historical specificities of formation of population ethnic structure; establishment of the degree of population ethnic variety and its dynamics; the study of the material and the spiritual cultural heritage of ethnic groups; quantitative estimation of attractiveness of ethnic tourism objects; mapping of ethnic tourism objects and development of ethnographic excursion routes. Chernivtsi as polyethnic and multi-cultural city is a notable example of sustainability of the development of ethnic tourism. The poly-ethnicity and multiculturality of the city was favored by its ethno-geographic disposition at the junction of three ethnic lands and the centuries-old history when the city was part of different states where each state essentially effected on population’s ethnic structure and left its imprint on city-planning and architectural environment as well as on its citizens’ material and spiritual culture. Chernivtsi is regarded to be an architectural pearl (represented by various architectural styles), and is downtown possesses the status of the area of conservation. The Government has registered 706 monuments of cultural heritage in Chernivtsi, where 20 monuments are of national value, and the architectural ensemble of the former residency of Bukovynian and Dalmatian Metropolitans is included into the UN List of World Heritage Sites. The objects of cultural heritage of the old city were grouped and systemized by their ethnic belonging. Relative quantitative (point-based) evaluation of ethnic tourism resources was conducted as to degree of their attractiveness. The whole diversity of ethnic tourism resources was for the purpose of primary point-based evaluation grouped into 15 blocks, each of them having their own specificity, own cognitive and attractive potentiality, and own methods of their study. Evaluation scales take into account the significance, aesthetic attractiveness, and the informative value of ethnic tourism objects. Ukrainians, Germans, Austrians, Romanians and Moldavians, Jews, Poles, Armenians were those ethnic groups that left the most notable “traces” in the material and spiritual cultural heritage within the poly-ethnic space of Chernivtsi. Mapping the objects of ethnic tourism allowed for the establishment of particularities of spatial disposition of the objects of respective ethnic culture and subsequent development of excursion routes to the biggest ethnic communities of Chernivtsi. Novelty. The objects of cultural heritage of Chernivtsi were grouped and systemized according to their ethnic belonging; the attractiveness of all ethnic tourism objects was evaluated according to developed point-based scale. Mapping the objects of ethnic tourism was helpful in the development of ethnographic excursion routes to the biggest ethnic communities of the city.

Общественно-политическая жизнь на Северном Кавказе и проблемы ее этнизации: размышления экспертов

Introduction. The current ethnopolitical situation in the North Caucasus is characterized by instability. In sociopolitical life of region, it is ethnicization that tends to come to the foreground. Goals. The paper aims at clarifying functional essentials of ethnicization in the macroregion’s social life in the context of ethnopolitical dynamics. Materials and methods. The work employs a number of conflictology and riskology research methods. The empirical base rests on results of an expert survey. Results. The obtained research materials make it possible to comprehensively analyze functioning patterns inherent to ethnopolitical processes in the North Caucasian Federal District and outline conclusions as to impacts of ethnicization trends in the polyethnic environment. Most experts consider the ethnicization process has resulted from political and administrative miscalculations that ultimately give rise to ethnopolitical conflictogenity in the North Caucasus. The ethnicization is facilitated by ‘decision making risks’, such as absolutization of the ethnoterritorial principle in politics, imbalances of socioeconomic programs and projects, mythologization of ethnic histories, inefficient language policies. Some experts point out that this process is natural and objectively determined, with both progressive and destabilizing effects. The ratio between these characteristics is determined by the quality of ‘decision making’. The duality of assessments ultimately resumes that the phenomenon is functionally determined by subjective administrative efforts undertaken by contemporary political elites. The conflictogenity level of the ethnicization in sociopolitical life depends on the adequacy of decisions made, efficiency of administrative policy at large, and specifically the qualitative features of political elites.

The Orenburg – Tashkent Railway and Its Influence on the Formation of the Polyethnic Environment of the Aktobe city at the beginning of the XX century

The Orenburg – Tashkent Railway and Its Influence on the Formation of the Polyethnic Environment of the Aktobe city at the beginning of the XX century

Outer garments of the Krasnoufimsk Maris: main types, sewing patterns, decoration

The paper is devoted to one of the elements of the traditional costume, namely, outerwear, typical of the Krasnoyfimsk Mari people (a local group of the Mari ethnos living in the upper reaches of the Ufa River, in the south of the Sverdlovsk Region). It describes in detail the peculiar cut designs and decorations of various types of outerwear and considers the differences in cutting out men’s and women’s outerwear as well as the features of its usage in the 20th century. The traditional outerwear of the Krasnoufimsk Maris is treated in historical dynamics, i.e. changes in its composition (disappearance of some types) and areas of its usage (white linen festive or everyday clothes were used in the second half of the 20th century exclusively for praying). Over several centuries, the Krasnoufimsk Mari people have been living in the polyethnic environment, and this could not help but affect their clothes. Borrowings of another ethnic origin are observed in terminology and sometimes in decorations of one of the women’s caftans (iylyan) that still preserves the traditional cut. This paper is prepared using the materials of the author’s field research carried out in Mari villages of the Krasnoufimsk District of the Sverdlovsk Region (expeditions 2002 and 2006). The sources also include the collection of Mari clothes from the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography (Kuzeev Institute of Ethnological Studies, Ufa Federal Research Centre, RAS), the collection of photographs made by the author in Mari villages of the Krasnoufimsk District of the Sverdlovsk Region, the photo archive of the Institute of History, Language and Literature (Ufa Federal Research Centre, RAS) and publications of the 19th–21st centuries on the stated topic. The research is based on the comparative analysis to correlate field and museum materials of the late 20th and early 21st centuries with the literature sources published in the 19th century, this enabling us to reveal the evolution of the ethnic tradition and its development in time. The paper introduces new field and museum materials for scientific use. Such a detailed research on the outerwear of the Krasnoufimsk Maris accompanied by cut patterns and fragments of embroidery has not ever been conducted before

Formation of communicative and ethno-pedagogical competence of future teachers in the poly-ethnic educational environment of the university

The article deals with humanitarian knowledge, which is studied by identifying the so-called communicative-ethno-pedagogical competence (from Latin competentia - a range of issues in which a given person has knowledge, experience), its content, functions and role in human life. In our opinion, the basis of a person's life in society, as we think, as a social being, is his/her communicative and ethno-pedagogical competence.If, in essence, we take into account that life activity is inextricably linked with communication, interaction, mutual understanding of people, then, as experience shows, in a multinational state, which is the Republic of Kazakhstan, we should talk about communicative and ethno-pedagogical competence.Without taking into account the well-being and potential of peoples, without the so-called developed system of observance of human rights and freedoms, without strengthening unity through a balance of interests and partnership of all ethno-national diversity, it is impossible to achieve a result. And thus, as it is, modern education should reasonably combine, on the one hand, the education of national self-consciousness in people, the rooting in the minds of future teachers of sacred concepts that determine the spiritual life of the nation (homeland, family, native language, people, its history, faith, spiritual culture of the ethnic group, etc.).On the other hand, as proven by experience, education should thus create favorable conditions for the inclusion of a person in the past and present of world culture based on human interaction in the system "I - social group - society - world civilization" in the spirit of tolerance, mutual respect, dialogue of cultures, open communication.Increasingly important in the life of Kazakhstani society, as time shows, belongs to the ethno-national concept, and education plays a special role in the formation of a spiritually sovereign and socially responsible personality of a citizen of a multi-ethnic country, based in its development on the spiritual traditions of ancestors, protecting the values developed in centuries-old history life-creation of Kazakh ethnic groups.   Keywords: communicative-ethnopedagogical competence, ethnopedagogics, communication, competence, higher education, future teachers,polyethnic environment, ethnos.  

Conditions influencing conservation of students’ ethno-cultural competency in the polyethnic environment of the university

The article discusses the aim of polyethnic education to form students' sensitivity to cultural differences.The aim of the study is to identify, define and justify the pedagogical possibilities of ethno-cultural education of students in a multiethnic educational environment. As a consequence of understanding cultural differences, the student must first understand their own culture, and only then other cultures. The peculiarity of the tested course is that the conditions are considered not only localization, as the preservation of an ethnos, but also the geographical environment from which the formation of an ethnos began, as a direct condition for the emergence of an ethnos and culture.  Because the climate affects the style of clothing and housing, modes of transport. Geographical conditions also affect the weapons of work and life; climate affects customs and rituals. Language plays an important role in the formation of each culture, a common language supports the cohesion of an ethnic group. Culture, customs and historical memory are mediated in the language. Within the framework of historical culture, ethnic self-cognition and historical memory are formed. Every culture strives to preserve its world through a system of traditions. And thus, the specificity and diversity of ethnic cultures of students are determined by a variety of factors. It is established that the dynamics of intercultural contact will depend on the quality of relationships (communication) between representatives of different cultures. The research uses methods of analysis of scientific literature, experimental work. A curriculum for the development of ethno-cultural competence of students was developed, which was tested at the Gumilyov Eurasian National University and Toraighyrov University. 159 students took part in the experiment Keywords: ethnos, ethnic culture, ethnic self-awareness, ethnic identification, identity, student.

ВЗАИМОСВЯЗЬ ТОЛЕРАНТНОСТИ И ЭТНИЧЕСКОЙ ИДЕНТИЧНОСТИ АРМЯНСКОЙ МОЛОДЕЖИ В УСЛОВИЯХ РАЗЛИЧНОЙ СОЦИОКУЛЬТУРНОЙ СРЕДЫ

The article looks into two multifaceted phenomena – tolerance and ethnic identity – and identifies different approaches to their study. The author claims that the level of tolerance largely reflects the moral development of an individual, their civility, as well as many of their personal qualities. Ultimately, tolerance plays a crucial role in a person’s attitude towards other people and the world at large. The author believes that the development of ethnic identity is associated with being aware of one’s belonging to a particular ethnic group and is an integral part of self-identification. The author points out that identity is a complex phenomenon that involves different levels of consciousness, individual and collective, ontogenetic and socio-genetic essential factors and knowledge about oneself; it can also be a feeling. Drawing on such understanding of tolerance and ethnic identity, the author aims to identify the relationship between tolerance and ethnic identity among Armenian youth in different socio-cultural environments. In doing so, the author suggests a working hypothesis according to which, firstly, there is a correlation between tolerance and different types of ethnic identity and, secondly, the tolerance of representatives of mono-ethnic and polyethnic environments is different. The hypothesis is tested through empirical research, which partly confirms the initial assumptions that representatives of a polyethnic environment are somewhat more tolerant than representatives of a mono-ethnic environment, as well as the existence of a correlation between ethnic tolerance and such types of ethnic hyperidentity as ethno-egoism, ethnic indifference and ethnophanatism. However, the study shows that the correlation between ethnic tolerance and positive ethnic identity is very weak.

Peculiarities of primary school teachers 'work with students in the intercultural space of Transcarpathia

The article proves that in the conditions of globalization and inclusion of Ukrainian education in the single European educational space and in order to preserve national identity, the experience of Transcarpathia as a polyethnic region is especially important. The need to update the content, forms of organization of education in primary schools in a polyethnic environment motivates increased requirements for the active use of already accumulated pedagogical experience, adaptation of leading ideas of the past to modern requirements and challenges. Training primary school teachers who are ready to interact with representatives of other cultures, exchange cultural values, transmit cultural meanings is a priority of higher education, and its solution contributes to the effective organization of intercultural interaction in Transcarpathia. Necessary principles of creation of intercultural space of primary school in Transcarpathia are outlined. The importance of creating a positive relationship between students, representatives of different cultural groups, especially the intercultural majority and cultural minority, was emphasized. in a higher education institution it is important to form a teacher as a person who is the bearer and guardian of national culture, spiritual values.

Bilingual Schools as a Model of National Education of the Ukrainians Abroad in a Foreign Language Environment

The article provides a retrospective analysis of the evolutionary proc-esses of formation and development of native language education of Ukrainians in the polyethnic environment of Canada and the important role of the state bilingual (Ukrainian-English) school, their importance in preserving the national culture of diaspora Ukrainians. The organizational and pedagogical principles of the educational process in bilingual schools as the main means of learning the native language by Canadian Ukrainians are highlighted. In Canada, there are four types of language immersion programs. They differ from each other in the number of academic hours dedicated to learning in the second language. The full immersion program in the second language takes 80 to 100 percent of the study time. In the programs of partial immersion during the first half of the day training is conducted in the second lan-guage, and during the other – in English. It is established that the system of bilingual education gave students the opportunity to master the Ukrainian language as a subject and at the same time to study certain school subjects in this language, which is extremely important from a psychological point of view. According to the educational program for grades 1–12 in the first three grades, the main focus is on listening, speaking and cultivating respect for culture, but already in the second grade, children begin learning reading and writing; in the 4–6 grades the culture of language is formed – its comprehension, speaking, reading and writing; in grades 7–12 students improve language and speech knowledge, skills and abili-ties, use them in their everyday life. It is found out that the main method of forming language and speech competence is conversational-visual. To implement it, teachers widely use methodological resources of teaching: printed educational publica-tions, audio and video resources, educational and methodical materials on different types of media, information and communication Internet resources, periodicals, primarily pedagogical. It has been detected that public bilingual schools in Canada contrib-ute to the mastery of the Ukrainian language as a major factor in pre-serving the ethnocultural identity of Canadian Ukrainians, an important means of their ties to the world Ukrainians.

СТУДЕНТЫ-ИНОСТРАНЦЫ В РОССИИ В УСЛОВИЯХ СОВРЕМЕННЫХ РЕАЛИЙ РАЗВИТИЯ ВЫСШЕГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ: МЕЖДИСЦИПЛИНАРНЫЙ ОПЫТ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ

The article highlights various approaches and plots of the research of foreign students studying in Russian higher school, from the standpoint of the accumulated theoretical and applied experience in the disciplinary practices of social humanitarian sciences. Considered separately, disciplinary practices in the aggregate of key areas and research problems of this topic made it possible to identify a common layer of problem areas and topical issues, among which the problems of adaptation of foreign students to the social and cultural realities of the Russian educational polyethnic environment, to regional conditions and factors of the functioning of the system of education and the sphere of interethnic relations are most emphasized. It is shown that the methods and methodological models proposed by scientists for studying this problem are diverse and need to be rethought from the point of view of the changed educational and sociocultural realities, as well as the contingent of the foreign students themselves. The need to develop a sociological toolkit for studying the problem of integrating foreign students into the educational and ethnosocial space of Russia is substantiated.

Alcohol Consumption and the Soberness Movement of Ruthenians of Bukovina in their Polyethnic Environment in the Second Half of the 19th - Early 20th Centuries

Alcohol Consumption and the Soberness Movement of Ruthenians of Bukovina in their Polyethnic Environment in the Second Half of the 19th - Early 20th Centuries

КЛУБНЫЕ СООБЩЕСТВА В СИСТЕМЕ ФАКТОРОВ ФОРМИРОВАНИЯ ЭТНОКУЛЬТУРНОЙ ИДЕНТИЧНОСТИ ПОДРОСТКОВ

The author of the article turns to the socio-pedagogical analysis of club communities and their socializing potential in the process of ethnic socialization of the young generation of modern Russian society. Socio-pedagogical support of the process of ethnic socialization of adolescents and youth requires the integration of the efforts of various subjects of social education, among which club communities have established themselves as an effective means of including young citizens in socially useful activities, social relations, and the formation of a wide range of socially significant personal qualities of pupils. The strengthening of migration flows creates a special socio-cultural situation in Russia in which adolescents have to integrate into a polycultural, polyethnic environment. Thus, socialization carries potential risks and threats associated with the rejection of «others», their alienation, the growth of nationalism, xenophobia, racial and religious intolerance among adolescents and youth. The author cites the results of his own research into the process of forming the ethno-cultural identity of adolescents, the conditions for realizing the socializing potential of club activities in this process, reflects on the possibilities of anticipating the development of a negative attitude of adolescents towardsrepresentatives of «other» peoples and cultures. The article presents the results of the empirical study, during which the features of the ethnocultural identity of adolescents were analyzed in connection with the involvement in the activities of various club communities. Using a representative sample, the author shows the changes that have occurred in the structure of the ethnocultural identity of adolescents involved in the activities of club communities. The author pays special attention to the need for competent psychological and pedagogical support of the process of adolescents’ ethnic socialization in multiethnic environment, using the socializing potential of reference adolescent and youth communities, enhancing the involvement of schools and families in ensuring the formation of ethnocultural identity of modern adolescents. The research materials can be used in the activities of educational psychologists, heads of educational organizations, and are of interest to researchers studying the problems of ethnic socialization, multicultural education, socio-pedagogical and socio-psychological problems of adolescent and youth communities.

АВТОРСЬКЕ СВІТОБАЧЕННЯ ЛЕОПОЛЬДА БУЧКОВСЬКОГО В ПОВІСТІ «ВЕРТЕПИ»

The article reveals the features of the “dialogic” creative method of the Polish writer Leopold Buchkowski, which was formed under the influence of the polyethnic environment in the region of the Polish-Ukrainian cultural border. In the novel “Wertepy” the writer creates a polyphonic image of a “small motherland”, in which each Other is a representative of another nationality and has his own voice, which is not a subject to the author’s speech, and the dialectic of “native” and “foreign” is devoid of ethnocentric motivation and is expressed in an opposition of “local” - “non-local”. It is noted that the artistic world of Leopold Buchkovsky, which was perceived by the artist as a multinational mosaic and to which he gave his own meanings, has been completely destroyed. It is pointed out that the characteristic feature of Leopold Buchkovsky’s artistic method is the versatility and ambiguity of the ethnocultural model of the art world, which results in different reading and a wide range of interpretations of the presented material. It is noted that his works are constructed in such a way that “the reader does not always have to perceive the world according to the author’s intentions”, on the contrary, he has the opportunity to “endow it with his own hypothetical structure, see in it what he considers important and valuable.” It is stipulated that the leading themes and dominant problems of Leopold Buchkovsky’s prose are extremely philosophical and universal issues of dramatization of the fluidity of the world, ephemerality of thinking, visions, inner states, and finally memory. It is stipulated that the author’s principle determines the specificity, uniqueness and originality of the work, begins with the author’s personality, which is the semantic foundation of literature. It is noted that in L. Buchkovsky’s “Wertepy” a certain plot sequence is preserved, it is possible to notice the lack of integrity of the presented images. It is stated that the space presented in the work, in which events unfold, is always clearly defined and limited by certain frameworks. It is pointed out that the space of Leopold Buchkovsky’s work, despite its anthropocentrism and secondary nature, is marked by extraordinary picturesqueness and sensuality, which have nothing to do with artistic decoration.

MODELING OF THE SYSTEM OF FORMATION OF INTERETHNIC TOLERANCE OF FUTURE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN THE PROCESS OF PROFESSIONAL TRAINING AT THE MASTER'S DEGREE: METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS

The urgency of the problem under research is dued to the requirements of modern globalized society, the educational system, which, makes difficult requirements for the professional training of future primary school teachers. Professional activity of students of Masters degree of specialty 013 Primary education takes place in a polyethnic environment. We considered the formation of interethnic tolerance in future primary school teachers as a system that is characterized by integrity and consists of specific elements (blocks) that actively interact and influence at each other. During such interaction, all indicators of interethnic tolerance have been formed, aimed at respect to members of another ethnic group. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the feasibility of developing a system of formation of interethnic tolerance of future primary school teachers in the process of professional training at Master's degree. The main emphasis was put on the analysis of methodological aspects, used in the process of pedagogical modeling. Research methods used: theoretical − system-structural analysis and systematization of philosophical, psychological and pedagogical works, which made it possible to substantiate the conceptual foundations of the system of interethnic tolerance of future primary school teachers; comparative pedagogical analysis and synthesis, deduction and induction, classification and generalization (to clarify the sence of scientific definitions «system», «modeling» and «structural-functional model»); pedagogical modeling, which contributed to the development of a structural and functional model of the system of formation of interethnic tolerance of future primary school teachers in the process of professional training at Master's degree. The author's structural-functional model is necessary as a theoretical and methodological reference point in the construction of the educational process in the higher educational establishments. The main result of the implementation of the developed system is the formation in the main majority of future primary school teachers of an appropriate (sufficient and high) level of interethnic tolerance, which will allow them to work effectively in a polyethnic educational environment of primary school.

Значение категории «народ» в Священных Писаниях единобожия для формирования веротерпимости в полиэтнической среде

Значение категории «народ» в Священных Писаниях единобожия для формирования веротерпимости в полиэтнической среде

Региональный нейминг в полиэтничной среде (на примере Республики Башкортостан)

Региональный нейминг в полиэтничной среде (на примере Республики Башкортостан)

Crimean Identity in the Media Presentation of the Region

The author proposes a new approach to studying regionology, an actively emerging area of research that examines laws of functioning of a region in terms of geographical, geopolitical, geo-economic, information and historical-cultural factors. This approach lies in coordinating the theory of regionality with real facts of a certain territory media history in its dynamic characteristics displayed in media texts. The author points out that active forming of the Crimean identity is a result of the ideas of the Russian world as a uniting factor. The identity features of those who live in the peninsula manifest themselves by the formula “We are Crimean” regardless of a person’s nationality. The identity features of the Crimean people are also determined by the role of the Russian language as an integrative field of communication for the living together representatives of different cultures. Regional mass media have a significant impact on shaping a regional worldview. Applying discourse analysis to the Crimean printed texts the author demonstrates peculiarities of media constructing of the Crimean identity involving geographical, historical, cultural and personal themes. The analysis carried out allows one to conclude that the Crimean (regional) identity corresponds to the professional identity of the journalists who work in the region. This is confirmed by the main regional themes being broadcast by the most popular regional mass media. The Crimean society is a specific regional polyethnic environment formed as the result of long-term and complex cultural and historical development. Characteristics of the key events representation in public space determine their collective comprehension. The regional mass media of the Republic of Crimea through the media texts draw the audience’s attention primarily to the attributes of the unified mentality. It is important that now when several years have passed after the Crimea joined Russia it is the time to interpret this historical event to build a complex hierarchically ordered system of the peninsula citizens’ self-identity.

The Intercultural Communication as a Tool of Multilingual Personality Formation in Modern Educational Space of Ukraine

The innovations in the educational policy of Ukraine are closely connected with global changes in all spheres of human activity: geopolitical problems, migration and emigration, interpersonal and professional contacts. The humanity is in the process of interconnection, interdependence and mutual influence of different countries, peoples and their cultures, religions. Consensus and conflict, cooperation and war make peculiar dialectical pairs, direction and intensity of which determine the viability of any human society. Today these processes in different ways have touched almost every country. Nearly all national and ethnic communities felt the influence of other peoples’ cultures both in positive and negative way. This is the influence of cultural exchanges’ quantity, direct contacts between state institutions, social groups, public movement and definite individuals of different countries and cultures. The significant increase of migrants and refugees caused by military actions and economic crisis creates additional social problems – ignorance of language and disrespect for the norms and traditions of countries in which they are located. Thus, in the center of intercultural interaction there is a person as a carrier of general human universals and national and cultural peculiarities, which requires certain knowledge, skills of intercultural communication. So, the ability of multilingual personality successfully communicates with representatives of other cultures is very important for today. It is the main task of intercultural training of pupils and student youth. That’s why the question as for forming of intercultural communicative competence is very actual, after all it will allow representatives of national communities to adapt more successfully and also to work in the polyethnic environment of Ukraine. The priority directions of education development have been defined in legislative and normative documents which provide successful interaction in all spheres of life. In the proposed article we focus attention on understanding the problem of forming of multilingual personality and its social adaptation in the conditions of modern polycultural society, the cultivation of the culture of tolerant relationships through the forming of intercultural communicative competence at lessons of foreign language in general educational establishments of Ukraine.