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The aim of the article is to analyze the problems of formation of graphic culture of students in the modern virtual space of the university. Currently, there is an urgent need for an analysis of social virtual reality, which appeared as a result of development of communication technologies, entailed significant changes in society and education. Virtual reality is social; it has a reflective base, as it is simulated by the actors of this process. In social reality there are new kinds of realities that are virtual; and technological environment for creating them is the Internet. One of the important areas of social virtual space is a virtual educational environment of the university, which in recent years has played a significant role in Russian higher education system. One of the problems of modern educational philosophy and pedagogy is to develop new types and forms of organization of the educational process of the University in the virtual space. As the general theoretical foundation of special technical (engineering) education, there are considered the graphic disciplines, which are one of the most important component in the training of technicians who implemented it in the virtual space of education. Graphic training of engineering students is the basis for the training of the future engineer. Its specificity is that it is mainly formed in the virtual education space that is set by the teacher. Engineering languages of the graphical representation of information belong to the area of graphic-geometrical disciplines, the most completely using the professional communicative function. The graphic culture is defined in the article as an expression of maturity and development of the productively realized in the professional activity system of qualities, formed in the virtual pedagogical space, which includes a graphical horizons and thesaurus, formed by a system of graphic knowledge.