SPECIFICS OF THE CULTUROLOGICAL COMPONENT IN PROFESSIONALLY ORIENTED RUSSIAN LANGUAGE TEACHING TO FOREIGN SERVICEMEN

In view of the current social situation that has rendered a particular acuteness to the world view issues, the importance of socially and culturally oriented sciences in education of all cohorts of students and especially of servicemen who are responsible for the fate of the world has now significantly increased. Regarded as an interdependent indivisible whole being essential of the language learning process, the cultural, regional and country studies through language are believed to have a hierarchical structure, and the components of this whole are shown to fulfill themselves through the following chain: Culture Studies → Regional Studies → Country Studies. It is found in the course of the research that the discussed sciences play a primary role in addressing the social and adaption problems faced by foreigners who first come to study in Russia. Based on the fact that science is understood as part of the national heritage and the system of human spiritual values, the culturological content is proved to include a narrower ‘channel’ for adding information about the target language country, i.e., the one pertaining to regional studies, which is oriented to the occupation foreign students choose, and implies country facts to be given to the extent needed to professionals in particular fields. The paper approaches the culturological component as a substantive part of the professionally oriented Russian language teaching process, which contributes to the basic understanding of the target language country in foreign military men in terms of the country’s cultural perspective and retrospective, as well as of achievements and developments in the professional field since it provides information about world-famous personalities and historical or cultural events of both common civilizational and high professional significance.