The article dwells on the issues that arise while young professionals are being onboarded at ecologically oriented organizations. A training system that allows students to acquire professional skills transferred to them by experienced mentors, to find and eliminate a problem, is proposed in the article. Plans developed for teacher education students based on the results of job-training programmes implemented in 2023 include all job functions of environmental engineers in the waste management sector. This experience is recommended to be used in environmental organizations in order to develop interest of recent graduates in their future professional activities and to train competent personnel.

The relevance of the article is due to the need of organizing students’ research ac-tivities in teams, unions and science clubs. The purpose of the article is to demonstrate the need for organization and holding students’ science schools for their efficient interaction and involvement in the research, innovation and educational activities in order to evolve, foster and support the talented youth. In the article, the authors clarified the following concepts: “a students’ science school of Sur-gut State University” and “a scientific union of Surgut State University students”. They studied and summed up experience of organizing and running science schools for students at different universities of Russia. Both in theory and in practice the authors demonstrated how students were attracted for participation in winter and summer science schools of Surgut State University.

The article studies the efficiency of project technologies applied in teaching of Mas-ter’s Degree Students as well as the development levels of their soft and project-based skills following the analysis of literature on Psychology, Pedagogy, Methods of Teaching and best practices of teach-ing English to Master’s Degree Students of science and technology. The purpose of the study is to examine the development of soft and project-based skills in Master’s Degree Students of science and technology in teaching them English under the transition to online and blended teaching in higher school. The object of the research is the process of teaching English to Master’s Degree Students of science and technology; the subject is the development of soft and project-based skills when teaching English under the "Practical Course on Cross-Cultural Communication". Theoretical (analysis, systematization and generalization) and empirical (experi-mental learning, testing) methods were used in the research. As a result of experimental learning English, Master’s Degree Students of science and technology are able to apply up-to-date communication-based technologies for academic and professional communication in the foreign language. It complies with the Federal State Standards in Higher Education.

The article analyzes the results of studying two types of self-efficacy of secondary school teachers. The relevance of the issue under consideration is due to a number of important educational, developmental and ideological tasks that the Russian society has set to teachers in recent years. The obtained results show that none of 63 teachers who participated in the study had low activity- or communication-related self-efficacy. However, a high level was noted just in some cases. The authors suggested focusing efforts on raising the levels of both types of teachers’ self-efficacy, as long as their professional success cannot be achieved without the synergy of activity- and communication-related self-efficacy. Based on the analysis of the obtained results and the relevant objectives of the education sector, the article outlines possible ways to solve the issue.

The research is of high current interest as it is important to know what students’ life is in order to see their values, interests and specifics of the way of life.
The purpose of the research was to study how popular different kinds of extended activities and hobbies were popular among students. A questionnaire was developed in order to find out how often students went in for different kinds of extended activities and hobbies. The questionnaire survey was carried out in autumn and winter period after the students’ voluntary informed consent had been received. As a result of the survey one can see that a large number of students have hobbies and go in for extended activities. Most students study art and music. Just a slight share of students are keen on scientific and research activities, culture-mass work and technical creativity. This suggests the need for increasing students' interest in the above activities, promotion of science and volunteering, attraction of more students to extracurricular activities.
The results of the survey can be of interest to teachers of higher education institutions, pro-fessionals who arrange extracurricular activities for students, experts who develop educational programs for extended activities and psychologists who deal with social and age-specific issues.

The relevance of the empirical study lies in the applied psychodiagnostic issue of studying how marriage affects maturation of men and gender-specific aspects of viewing the structure and functions of the family in the modern society. Despite the large amount of research carried out in the field of personality and age characteristics of men within the framework of developmental and gender psychology, the role of the parental family in the personality development of men and their vision of marriage have been understudied. The purpose of the study is to investigate how marriage is viewed by men of mature age. The author performed a critical review of theoretical approaches to identification of personality charac-teristics of men at mature age, their troubles, family functions and roles. In order to study men’s attitude to different aspects of family life, the authors used the method of psychological measurement (questionnaire “Role expectations and claims in marriage”) and the method of mathematical statistics (Mann-Whitney U test). After analysis of the obtained results, statistically significant differences were found in the views of men of different age groups. Moral and emotional partner support as well as personal identification with the partner are the most important according to the men of 25–34 years old, while for men aged 35–42 parenting is of high priority.

The relevance of the article is due to the high importance of scouting efficient health-improving technologies that can be used in physical education of students in order to reduce different stress factors’ impact on functional and psychoemotional state of students. The purpose of the research is to justify the need for the use of health-improving technologies in physical education of first-year students for their coping skills development.
In the course of the research the following methods of psychological and pedagogical testing were used: 1. assessment of psychic activation, interest, emotional tonus, tension and comfort; 2. color test by Lusher; 3. diagnosis of the level of fatigue. Functional status of students was tested with hardware-software Varikard complex. Analysis of the testing results proved high importance of using health-improving technologies in physical education of first-year students for their coping skills development. The article is meant for physical culture and sport professionals responsible for physical edu-cation of students at higher education institutions.

The purpose of the study was to check the efficiency of the developed speed and strength-training program for volleyball players at the 4th year training stage of the competition pe-riod. Fourteen volleyball players at the age of 15–16 with four-year training experience took part in the study. Volleyball players were tested every two weeks during the experiment, which lasted for 10 weeks. The competition period was simulated. The developed strength-training program consisted of exercises for increasing strength, power and speed, and for the prevention of orthopedic traumas within a week-long training microcycle in which the volume and intensity of technical and tactical training were taken into account. The results of the research proved the efficiency of the developed speed and strength-training program for volleyball players at the 4th year training stage of the com-petition period