Introduction: The article examines the social well-being of college students of KhMAO-Yugra from a sociological perspective. Objective: characterization of students’ assessments, opinions, and perceptions regarding various aspects of their social well-being. The interpretation of the social well-being of students is considered. It shows what college students understand by a prosperous life. The results of studying the social well-being of students and its individual aspects are analyzed.

Materials and methods: The article is written on the basis of data from a representative sociological study of students of the KhMAO-Yugra, including college students of the district. The main research method is a questionnaire survey of students on a representative sample. The analysis of a number of basic problems of their social well-being was carried out. The analysis of the interpretations of the theoretical provisions of social well-being and secondary vocational education was carried out.

Results and scientific novelty: At the end of the article, a number of results are discussed. Among them: the attitude of students to study; factors of choosing a future profession; the willingness of college graduates to work in their chosen specialty; student satisfaction with various aspects of life. The scientific novelty of the article consists in the fact that it presents one of the first attempts in Russia to generalize and analyze the data of a representative sociological study of the opinions, perceptions, and assessments of students of the secondary vocational training of their social well-being. On the basis of the presented material, conclusions and recommendations of both theoretical and practical nature are made.

The procedure and form of the State final certification for a full secondary school in the form of the Unified State Exam affects the interests of teachers, students, their parents and even their relatives. In this regard, it is advisable to analyze the attitude of the most important participants of the Unified State Exam — students who have already passed this procedure completely. For this purpose, a survey of graduates, first-year students of four universities in Yekaterinburg was conducted. 768 students took part in the survey. The purpose of the survey is to find out the attitudes of school graduates to the Unified State Exam (USE), which is the main form of GIA (State Final Certification).

The survey showed that a negative attitude towards the USE prevails among school graduates, expressed to varying degrees. Only a small proportion of respondents are positively disposed towards the exam. The main argument of graduates against the Unified State Examination: "nervous tension" — 82.2% of all respondents. The main argument in support of the Unified State Examination: “makes the university application process easier” — 43.5% of all respondents. The situation connected with the ideas of school graduates about the objectivity of the Unified State Examination is analyzed. In order to implement the test technology to the full extent of its constituent elements, it is proposed to present the results of the USE in the form of a range of values: deviations from the result obtained by the value of the measurement error up and down.

The mechanisms of the formation of the values of the national culture of modern students are studied, the elements of the educational potential of the “digitized” and real socio-cultural space are considered. The symbols of modern cinema are analyzed. The transformation of the deep meanings of Russian national symbols in Western film production, the acquisition of new symbols in modern Russian animation is noted. Based on the materials of mass questionnaire surveys and content analysis of students’ personal pages in social networks in 2020–2022 the characteristics of social interaction both in the community itself and with the community of teachers are revealed: attitude to interaction with the help of gadgets, changes in the structure of personal contacts in the real world and in social networks, duration and forms of contacts. As a significant factor in the dynamics of digitalization of the culture of the student community, long-term self-isolation during the pandemic is taken into account. The preferences of students in the world and Russian cinematography are revealed. The significant destructive potential of samples of Western film distribution chosen by students, the educational potential of modern Russian cinema are shown. The disappearance of a clear spatial localization of the layers of the actual culture and the emergence of the effect of their collaboration both in form and content are recorded. Conclusions are drawn about the significant role of digital content in the formation of cultural preferences, the value system of modern student youth, community solidarity and the system of community actions. The insufficient role of the community of university teachers in network interaction with students is substantiated, which reduces the possibility of transferring cultural capital between communities.

In view of the transformation of social communicative practice in today's society, the digitization of all life areas, including education, and the development of «social ability» important structural components (such as cognitive part) is an urgent task in the educational space of modern colleges and universities.

The students' cognitive competence formation is the basis of individual social intelligence development. The cognitive component of social ability is based on the individual's intellectual ability system, which means the development of social knowledge and skills, social prediction and social adaptation. It is one of the urgent tasks of the modern education system to identify effective educational technologies that affect the formation of students' personality cognitive ability in the field of higher education.

In accordance with the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated May 7, 2018 No. 204, the creation of a modern and safe digital educational environment is one of the strategic tasks of the country's development until 2024. However, in addition to the undeniable advantages, the digitalization of the educational process entails a number of negative consequences caused by both technical factors and factors associated with unequal digital skills of students. Thus, a digital divide is being formed in the field of education. The purpose of the article is to analyze the manifestations of the digital divide in the organization of the educational process.

The materials for the analysis were the research of the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center, the results of the author's research conducted in April-September 2022 among students living in Yekaterinburg and Kamensk-Uralsky (Sverdlovsk Region), as well as reporting information from the Ministry of Education and Youth Policy Sverdlovsk region.

In the course of the study, an insufficient level of development of the material and technical base of educational organizations, a different level of digital competencies among students and their parents, as well as other factors affecting the reproduction of the digital divide of students were established. In addition, the positive consequences of the digital divide are identified. Based on the results of the analysis, recommendations were developed for leveling the negative consequences of the digital divide in the digitalization of the educational process.

The correlation between social well-being’s evaluation and safety is observed in the article. The article is based upon the findings of sociological research held among the students. The place and role of safety in the structure of youth’s value orientations on the basis of subjective assessments are determined. The analysis of the results proved strong links between the characteristics of social well-being and safety in subjective assessments of the students.

The article deals with the issues of assessing the quality of higher education by the subjects of the educational process. The results of a sociological study conducted in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug — Yugra are presented. A model for representing the quality of higher education by the subjects of the educational process of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug — Yugra is proposed.

The article provides a comprehensive analysis of general theoretical approaches to management. It is concluded that the specialist (personality) becomes the main resource of the organization. Attention to organizational culture is needed. The approach to the management of an educational organization should be comprehensive. The university should represent an open system that actively interacts with the environment. It is also pointed out that any principles, structures and methods have their limitations and are effective only under certain conditions.

A special object of management should be the processes of change in educational organizations and the conditions for their effective implementation.

The paper under consideration deals with the problem of the language component of foreign language communicative competence at English lessons in the secondary school as part of the implementation of gamification technology. Some theoretical basis of the development are considered: the concept of gamification, its essential and distinctive features for usage in school; motivation problems. Besides, the some differences between gamification and other gaming practices in teaching are identified. An algorithm for implementing gamification techniques on the example of the Classcraft service into the educational process in order to form and develop language communicative competence of students of the middle stage at school has been created and introduced.

The article is devoted to the assessment of the degree of formation of information technology competencies among bachelor students in the field of training 44.03.05 Pedagogical education (with two training profiles), focus: «Mathematics and Computer Science» in the process of mastering the discipline «Workshop on solving problems in computer science», as well as the features of developing a model for their assessment. The theoretical analysis of various approaches to the definition of the concepts of «competence», «competence» is carried out. The structural components of information technology competencies are described, the necessity of assessing the degree of formation of information technology competencies among bachelor students is identified and justified. A model for assessing the degree of formation of information technology competencies among undergraduate students is proposed on the example of one of the topics of the discipline «Workshop on solving problems in computer science».

The article discusses the implementation of the updated FSES BGE, analyzes the problems that teachers of the humanities cycle face. The purpose of writing the article is to substantiate the fact that innovative educational practices are a means of introducing the updated FSES BGE. Scientific novelty lies in the definition and introduction of the concept of “innovative educational practice” into the system of regional additional professional education. The features of the organization and conduct of such practices as part of the improvement of their qualifications of teachers of the humanitarian cycle are revealed.

Based on published sources and special research in the field of folk medicine, the article analyzes the influence of spiritual and ecological knowledge on the healing practices of the peasants of Western Siberia of the XIX— early XX centuries. The theoretical basis of the research was the concept of spiritual and ecological development of society. In the course of the study, it was found that the natural and geographical environment and religious beliefs had a decisive influence on healing practices. By analyzing the conspiratorial practices of the region, the author shows the role of natural factors, mineral remedies in medical practice and their connection with the religious beliefs of the peasants, indicates the relationship with the scientific knowledge of the period under study. It is established that Christianity contributed to the replenishment of traditional medicine with new spiritual and moral methods of church healing, at the same time pagan ideas continued to be present in the spiritual and ecological healing practices of the peasants of Western Siberia.

The article examines the changes in the state policy in the field of education after the February revolution in Russia in 1917‑early 1918, i. e. before the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly. The features of the activities of educational institutions are shown on the example of the Ural region, the first attempts to reform education made by the Provisional Government and general democratic authorities. The role of the Zemstvo and city administration in the transformation of the system of educational institutions on a democratic basis in the Urals is highlighted.

The article discusses the problems of organizing socialist co-jealousy in the mines of the Kemerovo mine during the first five-year plan (1928–1932). In the scientific literature, this problem is reflected fragmentally. The goal is to study it by analyzing archival documents and materials of the local press. As a result of the study, the author comes to the conclusion that during the five-year plan, a socialist competition in the form of shock begins to develop. The drummer movement gained strength with varying success, experiencing pendulum fluctuations — first growth, then decline and again a larger increase in the number of strike brigades and strikers, which became the main indicators of the effectiveness of mobilizing labor enthusiasm of workers aimed at implementing the coal mining plan.

At the same time, the increase in the effectiveness of the strike restrained a number of unfavorable factors, these are: formal support from the leadership of enterprises, party and trade union bodies; lack of specific commitments made, encouraging mastermind; unavailability of mining supervision in the organizational, technical and moral (due to the manifestations of special equipment) plan to optimize the loss of miners’ working time; high staff turnover.

The article is devoted to the problem of drunkenness in the Russian community of Tobolsk province in the era of modernization and measures of struggle of the church and secular authorities with this negative phenomenon. It is noted that with the introduction of the wine monopoly, alcohol consumption in the peasant community is growing, and with it the number of offenses among the peasantry is increasing. Sobriety societies are being created in towns and villages of the Tobolsk province to combat drunkenness in the countryside. With the introduction of the «prohibition law» during the First World War, alcohol consumption by the population of the empire initially decreases, but at the same time there is an increase in distilling by the local population. Despite the measures taken by the state and the public aimed at combating drunkenness in the village, these measures, although they had a certain effect, were, on the whole, unsatisfactory.

The article reveals the ideas of the Russian economist and statistician A. A. Kaufman about the land use practices of the peasantry in the conditions of the agrarian-ecological environment of Western Siberia in the second half of the 19th — early 20th centuries. The "platforms" for the representation of the author's perception of the issue were his research works: monographs, essays, journalistic notes, reflecting the contextual and substantive plots related to the organization of the production activities of peasants in the agricultural areas of Western Siberia. It has been established that the objective background for the peasantry's choice of forms of arable farming, a set of techniques, methods and tools for processing arable land, were the general conditions of the resettlement process, the involvement of state and public structures in it, the natural and environmental conditions of the region of residence. Accounting for these circumstances and deep professional integration of A. A. Kaufman in the field of solving the agrarian issue in Russia and Siberia, created the prerequisites for modeling scenarios for the organization of agriculture in the colonized areas of the Trans-Urals, adequate to the capabilities of the peasantry and the region.