Professional culture of future border guard officers: stages of formation

The article outlines the importance of forming a professional culture of future Border Guard officers, which regulates their behavior and professional duties and determines officers’ interaction with the world around them. The study reveals the ways of forming professional culture of the cadets of higher military educatonal institution in ceveral stages: familiarization (I year), formation (II year), realisation (III year), individualization (IV year). The authors sustantiate the expediency of studying the history of socio-political thought and modern military literature by cadets at the second stage of professional culture formation. At the third stage the major importance is given to the formation of skills to work with information and countering enemy propaganda. At the fourth stage it is proposed to form knowledge and skills to counter hostile information influences, using project and research methods, conduct professional communication, study the problems of leadership and management of the border guard unit, develop future Border Guard officers creative thinking.