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In the article there is considered the significance of education in the process of the student's identity formation, there is shown the necessity of goal-oriented influence of the educational medium on the formation of the student's personality. There are analyzed in detail the approaches to definition of the identity notion. The author indicates the influence of difficult socio-economic conditions, constantly changing external demands to the person on his/her identity formation in the youth period. There are considered in detail the ways of identity formation, the role of educational medium in this process, as well as the specificities and stages of preventive treatment of the identity crisis.