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This article examines the topical problems of preservation and development of local University cultures and civilizations in the modern global educational world. The authors analyze trends in the interaction between local and mass, paying attention to changes in cultural and educational spheres. Considering this issue, the authors use the concept of glocalisation, as a compromise between the preservation of distinctive cultural features of certain territories and contemporary development in accordance with the requirements that are put forward in modern global world. From the point of view of the present situation of higher education, on the one hand, glocalization is a way high-quality, effective development of local universities in the global educational world that is an opportunity for them not to be destroyed by the massive trends. But on the other hand, this integration of global and local can be an important problem especially for small civilizations. There is no clear concept, effectively glocal development, but it is obvious the fact that it is the most appropriate form of strengthening local cultures due to the active promotion of global, mass civilization. The mass and the universalization of social trends is a major difficulty in establishing glocal civilizations, including institutions of higher education. On this basis, the question of their development in the context of the global educational world is particularly important and topical. Also in the article the analysis of the Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University as a modern example of the glocal university. The authors come to the conclusion that it is in glocalnet as «the compromise of development», the key is the novelty, the uniqueness, but at the same time and the problematic of the development of modern civilizations, universities, economies, cultures and global relations.