Patriotism in the student's environment: Regional aspect

Abstract

Article represents the main results of researches of the patriotic sentiments of student's youth conducted in 2014-2016 at the Kazan Federal University and its branches in the territory of the Republic of Tatarstan. The choice of student's youth as a reference group is caused by a number of factors from which it is possible to distinguish high intellectual potential and social mobility that allows to consider students as potentially active force of modernization transformations in the country. The received results will be coordinated with the previous researches of civic stands and patriotic sentiments of youth of the region. For the last 16 years researches steadily fixed backwardness of patriotic consciousness in the Russian society including at student's youth, not formation of value of political participation, the importance of own efforts in the solution of the public and public affairs, participation and responsibility for the events and the future of the country.