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This article is devoted to the problem of creation of an ethical code of the teacher of the higher educational institution in Russia. After political changes in our country, the system of higher education has also changed. The reform of higher education was carried out not always systemically that resulted in substantial distinctions in the work of the state and commercial universities, universities in the capital and the province. In the article, the contradictions of professional ethics of the Russian academic community with surrounding social realities are considered in detail, an example of an attempt to resolve these contradictions is given, namely, the creation of "The concept of the professional ethics code of educational community" offered by the Russian Union of rectors in 2012. The authors distinguish specific problems of small provincial higher education institutions and substantiate the reasons of inefficiency of such higher education institutions. In the province, where there are one or two higher education institutions in the city, the defining qualities of the teacher are not professional merits but social communications. Respectively, the ethical problems of analogous provincial higher education institutions differ from the ethical problems of the universities in the capital. In the article, the process of formation of professional ethics as a scientific discipline is analyzed, as well as the purposes of modern professional ethical codes which allow each individual to realize his/her potential. It is justly considered that the professional ethics appeared together with the division of labor. But in the antiquity or in the Middle Ages ethics served to isolate social group; such "tribal" ethics turned out to be powerless in the universal society; it is succeeded by personal ethics in which there was no place to professional interests. Rational ethics are formed this way. There the creation of a right society is required in which the person is able to become happy. In such society the person starts looking for a community which is larger than the family, but less global than the nation or the state. The professional group is ideal for this purpose. Setting of the behavior standards in such groups is the beginning of modern professional ethics. A hypothesis is proposed bout the subject domains of ethics of the external and internal relations of the teacher of higher education institution. Four such areas are distinguished: the first is the teacher and his/her subject, the second is the teacher and the student, the third is the interaction of the teacher with other teachers, the fourth is the teacher and scientific ethics. At each level there can arise ethical problems, which are also described in detail in the article. In conclusion, the program is presented for the introduction of Ethical code of the teacher at the Khakass State University in the spring of 2015.