Tertiary education is supposed to play an important role in the development of students’ soft skills, including their capacity for self-development in intellectual and social directions. Creativity, critical thinking, ability to learn, ability to cooperate and communicate are the basic soft skills in the 21st century. The interpretation of the term «soft skills» is given in the article; the most significant soft skills for a teacher are highlighted. The article contains the analysis of official documents regulating the functions of in-service teachers and pre-service teachers in general, and teachers of foreign languages in particular. Introducing teaching soft-skills into tertiary education should be supported on both governmental and non-governmental levels. Although the definition and the list of soft skills are various, common tendencies are as follows – skills and competencies connected with knowledge, cognitive skills, emotional and social competencies.

The problems of professional education have always been relevant. At the same time, these problems seem difficult to solve, as they are associated with the formation and development of the individual in the changing socio-cultural conditions of socialization. Consequently, only by clearly imagining the attitudes and aspirations, value orientations of modern youth, it is possible to organize work on their formation. The purpose of the article was to determine the features of the professional education of cadets in a team-type organization as a kind of way of life on the basis of value orientations of students; to design a system of measures for the formation of competencies required for the effective professional activity of water transport specialists. The study was conducted at the Yakutsk Institute of Water Transport (hereinafter: YIWT). It covered 87 full-time students aged 16-21 years. In the course of the study, we used the Rokich’s method of value orientations. The survey showed that the priority values of students are: rationality, sensitivity, honesty, good manners, independence. However, responsibility, education, diligence, efficiency in business, firm will, which are necessary for the professional activities of water transport specialists, are the least important values, despite the fact that these values are significant for the formation of general cultural competencies reflecting the level of professional education. Taking into account these «sinking values», which have a great influence on the level of professional education, a program for the education and socialization of YIWT students has been developed as one of the means of forming and reflecting the way of life in a team-type organization. The formed professional abilities and their result are proposed.

The higher education system of the Russian Federation faces the task of preparing successful specialists with a high level of formation of basic professional competencies. The article deals with the process of teaching Chinese in a professionally oriented environment of the university. As an example, the training of media workers who are able to build a mutually productive dialogue with representatives of different cultures and nationalities is given. As the students note, in the future, knowledge of the Chinese language will provide them with advancement in life biography and professional career, education and communications. In practical classes of the Chinese language, NEFU teachers use a wide range of active teaching methods. But with the introduction of digital didactics, learning tools are also changing. The authors tried to analyze mobile applications, Internet resources and Chinese language training programs such as: «Chinese Skill», «Train Chinese», «Hello Chinese» and others. The description and characteristics of the developed author’s digital educational tool «Golden Lotus» for teaching the Chinese language to future journalists are presented.

The article is devoted to the importance of developing supraprofessional competencies («soft skills») in future doctors. The theoretical foundations for the research problem are presented. Significant «soft skills» for medical students are defined as «softskills» of a social and humanitarian orientation: communication, empathy, value attitude to the future profession. The results of the research work carried out by students of the 5th year in the framework of the study of the discipline «Public Health and Healthcare» are given; they studied the development of “soft skills” among graduate students of the Department of General Medicine, Institute of Medicine, M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University, and young doctors. We studied the degree of formation of the initial level of «soft skills» in senior students; it is shown that a significant part of the respondents (85%) have sufficiently developed communication skills: they are polite and attentive to patients; however, a high level of development of «soft skills» is observed only in 47% of senior students. According to the results of the survey, the alternative experience of faceto-face communication with patients in a pandemic in the form of students passing an internship in a call center of medical organizations was recognized as positive. Finally, conclusions are drawn about the need to strengthen the research work of students in student scientific circles of the Institute of Medicine; curatorial work and mentoring. The results of the study can be useful for medical workers, teachers, methodologists and university leaders.

The article reveals the main results of the II Universities and the Development of Geostrategic Territories of Russia Forum hosted by the North-Eastern Federal University on June 10-12, 2022. It shows how under dynamically changing foreign policy and economic conditions, new tools for the development of the higher education system are being developed as the main mechanism for ensuring Russia’s territorial cohesion, as well as preserving and increasing scientific and technological potential. Based on the analysis of the opinions of the forum participants, the article presents the progress and results of discussions and expert meetings on current issues of university development in the new geopolitical environment, amidst abandoning the Bologna Process and forming a new architecture of Russian education. The article reveals main factors providing the catalytic effect of the forum.

The article presents theoretical and empirical studies of the components of patriotism among representatives of different generations (generation X, millennials, and zoomers). During the theoretical analysis of scholarly literature, the complexity and versatility of the phenomenon of patriotism, its structural components were revealed. The article presents an empirical study, the purpose of which was to identify the features of the phenomenon of patriotism among representatives of different generations. The study covered 82 people, aged 20-68 years. The study was conducted using the «Patriogram technique» (Kudinov, Potemkin). Based on the conducted empirical research, conclusions were drawn: about the difference in the severity of such components of patriotism as ergic, aergic, awareness and meaningfulness among representatives of generation X.

The paper touches upon one of the urgent problems in teaching a foreign language is individual differences and their influence on mastering a foreign language. The author reports the findings of a study that investigated the relationship between phonological short-term memory, working memory capacity and the level of mastery of a foreign language. As an example, we offer to use the English passive voice because it should be noted that the English passive poses considerable difficulty in terms of both explicit and implicit knowledge Grammatical mastery was operationalized as the ability to produce and comprehend English passive voice with reference to explicit and implicit (or highly automatized) knowledge. In the study two tests on measuring the working memory capacity and four tests on estimating explicit and implicit (or highly automatized) knowledge were used. We also considered the final grades the participants received in a grammar class. A correlational analysis showed that phonological short-term memory was related to implicit productive knowledge while working memory capacity was linked to explicit productive knowledge. However, those relationships were weak and mediated by overall mastery of target language grammar. The results show that higher grades played more positive role indicating that overall mastery of English grammar is a stronger influence on the knowledge of the passive than working memory. All this indicates that the impact of working memory is more likely to production than comprehension of grammar.

The article discusses the importance of religious values in the formation of the qualities of perfection and the formation of a spiritually mature person, as well as the fact that religious values are an important factor in the spiritual development of society. As a result, the transcendence of religious transcendental values with secularism is analyzed. However, the article deals with religious values not only in religious sciences, but also in secular science and philosophy, where they are seen as their moral maturity and education of faith; and in the image of scientific values – intellectual development, a factor of social well-being. The article also emphasizes the high socio-political, philosophical and educational significance of Islamic values in ensuring the development of the spiritual culture of the individual in the development of civil society, it is analyzed that they are not fundamentally different things.

The former country of the Soviets had a state ideology in the form of Marxist-Leninist philosophy. The specific content of this ideology was given by Joseph Stalin in 1931. In the report of the 17^th Party Congress on the work of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, the head of the country said: «It is easy to understand how difficult it was for the USSR to pursue its peaceful policy in this atmosphere poisoned by the miasma of military combinations». Asked what were the strong arguments of our country in the struggle for peace, he named the state of the army as one of the reasons. In other words, the country of the Soviets knew that sooner or later a war would happen and it was necessary to prepare for it. Preparations were made in all subjects of the country of the Soviets, including the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. However, even under the conditions of the effective action of oneleading and guiding force, the preparation was extremely difficult, overcoming real life difficulties. This circumstance is shown on the example of Yakutia.