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The article discusses the urgent problems of the formation of national self-consciousness of student youth in the process of learning at a university. The essence, problems, directions, methods of work on the formation and development of national identity of future young professionals are analyzed. It is emphasized that at present, higher educational institutions have an important and urgent task to train not only highly qualified specialists, but also socially active members of society, future leaders of the economy, culture, science, education, health care, responsible for the preservation and development of spiritual values, customs, traditions, language of peoples living in the Russian Federation. The forms and methods of work for the preservation and formation of national identity of students in the educational process in the study of humanitarian disciplines and additional special courses, as well as during extracurricular activities are considered. Much attention is paid to the patriotic education of students, the generalization of the experience of a number of educational institutions in this direction, indicates the need to exclude formalism, coercion and “obligation” in this matter, to use modern technologies (social networks, the Internet) along with traditional ones. In the preservation and development of the national self-awareness of students, an important place is given to the study of culture, traditions, customs, the mother tongue of both the national majority and the national minority, and the involvement of students in creative and transformative activities. The article analyzes the interaction of scientists and practitioners in summarizing the experience and developing ways to improve the work on the formation of national self-awareness of student youth during scientific and practical conferences, seminars, round tables, substantiates the conclusion that today it is important to study and summarize the experience gained, to systematically search for effective approaches to patriotic education, preservation and formation of national self-awareness of students. Particular attention must be paid to the problems of the formation and strengthening of all-Russian civic identity and the spiritual community of the multinational people of the Russian Federation, to actively use the All-Russian action "Immortal Regiment" in this matter.