The article treats the history of the Soviet airship production in the period of 1935-1937, which became a turning point in its development. The new archive materials became public in the scientific community for the first time.

The article deals with the issue of repressions in the Red Army, particularly, at military educational establishments of Siberian Air Force Command as well as in Siberian aeroclubs training personnel for military aviation. Having analysed archive documents the author concludes how personnel purges were performed as well as who and for what reasons was exposed to repressions of People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs.

We consider the point of view represented in the national historiography and Russian literature abroad on individual aspects of the military-political activity of L.D. Trotsky during the civil war: the construction of the Red Army, the defense of Petrograd in 1919, participation in the development of military operations.

This paper reviews the history and evolution of the legal framework, as well as describes the legal steps and legal facts, which are directly related to and served as the basis for the formation of structure and development of statehood of the peoples of Russia.

This article discusses the methodological approaches to the study of history, and describes a number of methodological concepts, developed in the 20th century. In addition, the article focuses on the advantages and disadvantages of these methodological concepts.

The characteristics of open systems, characterized by instability, diversity, nonlinearity are given in the article; the mechanisms of self-organization following the example of development of objects of animate and inanimate nature are disclosed; the conclusion is based on self-organization as a way of transition of the system to a new level of development. The possibilities of a synergetic approach in the study of social systems are described.

The peculiarities of interpretation of social memory are certain in socio-humanitarian knowledge are described, the correlation of concepts «culture» and «social memory» is explained, position about growth of influence of social memory on the spiritual world of personality in the process of evolution is grounded. The peculiarities of social memory functioning are described in global society. The negative aspects of constructing social memory are described on the basis of information technologies: control and manipulation of the content of spiritual life of society.

The paper deals with the main challenges of globalization of higher education, a definition of globalization is given. It is noted that globalization was the basis for the transformation of vocational education. The main purpose of the globalization of higher education is to focus on building a society that is based on well-educated human capital. The main directions of globalization are internationalization, integration and computerization of higher education. It is shown that the globalization of education is a concept that orients a student on the development of planetary consciousness.

The article discusses the features of broadcast and traditions in the cultural space. Sociocultural retrospective reveals a wide variety of social programs transferring their experience, their organization in the tradition. The conclusion has been made about a complex tangle of demonstrative and imperative, nonverbal and verbal ways of creating and maintaining traditions.

On the basis of the single out features of information society new needs for structures of social management are shown. Modern organizational models of management are described. The organizational structures corresponding to requirements of innovative management are revealed and characterized. The basic principles underlying the organization of management in forming a society of knowledge are revealed.

The historical stages of reflection of the risk phenomenon are identified. The peculiarities of formation of the global world as a risk stage of social development, constructive and at the same time destructive, producing the good and disasters are considered.

The peculiarities of conceptualization of the inheritance notion in the context of philosophical categories "property-substance", "internal-external" and other categories characteristic of the current period of post-non-classical stage of development of genetics are identified. The definition of a gene inherited as part of the genome that affects any phenotypic trait is proposed. Scientific discoveries in biology, which helped to define the concept of "inheritance», are described.

This article provides a brief outline of the role played by religious dogmatism in the history of society and culture. Influence of dogmatism received unilateral negative characterization of the scientific literature, so it is advisable to consider this issue comprehensively and identify positive aspects associated with dogmatism.

The author performed the breakdown analysis of dominating gender roles in different mythological systems. The author showed the influence of the gender mythological model on formation of the national gender behavior. For performing the analysis, the most developed mythological systems were chosen, i.e. the Classical Greek mythology, the Slavic mythology, the Celtic mythology. The performed research allowed to make the following conclusions about the allocation of dominating roles. The Classical Greek mythology: the World was created as the result of the union of gods. The Slavic mythology: a male character plays the leading role in the Creation. The Celtic mythology: the World was created by a male personage. The study showed that the mythological model of the gender behavior in different countries is to a great extend the archetype of the national gender behavior.

Some actual sociological approaches to the problem of generations are discussed. In modern societies the generation is not a demographic category, but a resource of modernization processes.

The description of the spiritual atmosphere of a small social group is given, its essence is revealed, the specific features with regard to the functioning of small groups in the field of Civil Aviation are determined.

A comparison of the accident rates of different countries in the context of their historical and cultural heritage is given in the article. The authors have described the influence of national traditions on aircraft operations. An attempt is made to understand how the society affect the aviation industry. An example is given of regions dominating in aviation and problems arising from their hegemony.

The article deals with the basic levels and types of manifestation of social and political agreement and disagreement. An original model of levels and types of dichotomy "agreement and disagreement" on the basis developed typology of political subjects. In the abovementioned dichotomy such typos of agreement and disagreement as “solidarity - egocentrism”, “consensus - protest”, “constructive active - destructive active” independently.

The article analyzes the main stages of personality’s politicization. The main types of political subject have been treated. Determined that agreement basically has everyone’s desire to be part of a group, team, company, and disagreement basically contains a human being’s desire to leave the team, to oppose it.

The article deals with the analysis of ethnic immigration, the factors influencing the process of ethnos migration have been determined, objective and subjective components of this process have been singled out. It is for the first time that the author treals ethnoimmigration as an independent form in the migration stream.

The article deals with determining the basic directions of humanizing the administrative activity in organization the content of which provides a constructive dialog in the «leader-subordinate» system based on taking into account of many-sided nature of a human being, social responsibility of management subject and object. Contradictions of this process conditioned estrangement of people in the vertical line of imperious relations, by displays of destructive qualities of human being are also described.

Researcher A. Haksli has examined the school and social order in the modern world reality and ideas. The problem of teaching in university has been studied, so that this process leads to the education of creativity and independent thinking of youth. Teaching and the intellectual growth of the teacher has been reviewed. The process of training and education of young teacher and scientist has been researched. Age and teacher is the problem that should be studied.

The article considers the points of view presented in the literature of Russians abroad, regarding the number of military specialists who served in the Red Army during the Civil War.

Mathematical methods of the modern theory of cognition are examined and the possibilities of applying mathematics in different fields of science are shown.

Philosophical meaning of the category "quality" is defined, the role of quality control in the evaluation of quality is justified, ontological, axiological, phenomenological aspects of quality control are characterized.

The article discusses the cosmic worldview N.K. Roerich's philosophical doctrine Living Ethics and its role in the spiritual and moral, cultural transformation and human development, and the relationship of Personal Progress and outer universe and search for conformities between the problems of morality and the laws of the outer space.

The article addresses the influence of society’s prevailing worldview on the organizational principles of musical material. The analysis also deals with issues of decoding of artistic text.

The place of physical education in the educational system is considered, the necessity of the unity of theory and practice in the process of teaching physical education at the University is shown.

The article deals with the different methods used for physical training of students in a higher educational institution and organizing physical training in the MSTU CA.

The article discusses the health problems as an indicator of society's transition to Sustainable Development, which is analyzed as a complex health criterion for the quality of the environment and as a social value.