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In the article there are analyzed the models of Russian cultural politics of Soviet and Post-Soviet periods; positive and negative aspects in the cultural life of the society are specified. In the modern conditions of the Russian society, the function of cultural policy in the field of education acquires an essential importance for the development of domestic culture. The cultural policy in the sphere of education should ensure an optimum balance in terms of the cultures of the past and the present. Absence of an integral connection between the culture of the past and the present weakens people's links with the experience of the past generations; therefore, they lose social orientation in the modern conditions.  The author offers optimal ways of improvement of cultural politics in the sphere of education.