Vol 25, No 2 (2023)

The relevance of this study is due to the need to search for new forms of human development in the context of globalization, one of which is mentoring. The article shows the importance of this form of interaction with students as the most popular type of educational activity in modern pedagogy. The purpose of the article is to describe and disclose the best forms of mentoring using the method of comparative analysis, and to identify possible types of effective cooperation between teachers and students in a modern university. A brief description of the history of this type of pedagogical activity is given, as well as various forms of mentoring implemented within the framework of the pedagogical process are considered. There are five main types of mentoring that are actively used in practice at the pedagogical university. Both classical forms of mentoring, in which a more experienced and senior specialist transmits his knowledge to students, and innovative forms of interaction with students, which imply several levels of mentoring, as well as inverse types of cooperation, implying the work of a student as a mentor for a teacher, are considered. Special attention is paid to the importance of the mentor's control over the results of educational activities and the possibility of correcting mentoring activities. According to the authors of the article, mentoring has a high potential for further development and will allow achieving high results of pedagogical activity in educational organizations. The authors propose to update the principles of regulatory regulation of the institute of mentoring together with the methodological and pedagogical foundations of such a form of work with students, which has a high potential for practical application.

This paper analyzes the translation of the novel called “Do androids dream of electric sheep?” by Philip K. Dick into Russian. Current paper is the third part of a bigger research and deals particularly with the translation of some proper names (especially so called charactonyms) found in the novel. The paper provides the brief review of basic ways of translation of proper names (such as transcription and transliteration), as well as analysis of their advantages and disadvantages in each particular situation. The results of the research are used to draw a conclusion that various misrepresentations of the original proper names occurred because of the obvious lack of the translator’s professional knowledge.

Relevance of the study: today it is extremely important to study the genesis and key characteristics of the wedding ritual, which determined the ability of it to function as a way of constructing social movements and acquiring a new social status. Considering the phenomenon of ritual as a cultural system, the authors largely proceed from the semiotic understanding of culture itself as a system focused on the generation and preservation of meanings. In this regard, the theoretical and methodological basis of the study is the concept of the American anthropologist and sociologist K. Girtz. The works of foreign (A. van Gennep, B. Malinovsky, V. Turner, etc.) and domestic (N.V. Ermakova, N.V. Zorin, Yu.M. Lotman, L.V. Timofeeva and others) researchers. The authors come to the conclusion that the wedding ritual is a complex semiotic complex, the constitutive moment of which is the fixation of the religious-symbolic, social, psychological transition that the bride and groom make. Entering the sphere of human existence, the wedding ritual integrates various contexts in its symbolic field: religious, cultural, social. Being a communicative socially significant event, the traditional religious wedding ritual is inevitably associated with the processes of secondary semantization occurring within certain sociocultural situations.

The object of the article is the tradition of buffoonery in Russian culture. The subject of the research is the ambivalent image of dusk, the phenomenon of twilight in Russian poetry, which is associated with inverted reality, the antithetic world. The material for this article is represented by the creative heritage of S.A. Yesenin who is rightfully considered to be one of the best folklore poets of the early 20th century. The cultural-philosophical analysis is centred on a poem from the cycle “Moskva Kabatskaya” [Moscow of Taverns], namely “I will not deceive myself...”. This poem is internally structured according to the principle of interaction between two types of reality in art – the phenomenal and the noumenal, the rational and the spontaneous. Much attention is paid to the problem of transformation of the buffoonery tradition in the poet’s works, the latter being associated with the image of murky heart, nocturnal light denoting the inverted reality, the ritual chaos. The paper explores the phenomena of gloom, of vespertinal and unfading light which are linked with the antithetic world, i.e. with inverted reality and the thanatological text of culture. The research methodology involves the holistic ontological-hermeneutic analysis of S.A. Yesenin’s poetic texts. The research results may be of interest for philologists tending to include literature in the space of a great dialogue of cultures and may also be used in courses on cultural studies and Russian philosophy.

The modern functional and planning environment of megacities is undergoing significant changes under the influence of the restructuring of the system of needs of the population. New forms of territorial and spatial relations, forms of leisure activities, impressions from cultural and entertainment events, the active use of new formats of trade services and public catering, as well as the possibility of implementing a wide range of socio-cultural and commercial and household needs along the way, stimulate the masses of the population to visit shopping and entertainment centers and places of concentration of service facilities on shopping streets of cities. The formation of the most important functional planning nodes and spatial channels in the city largely depends today on the nature and intensity of the population's connections that characterize its spatial and consumer behavior. The active inclusion of interdisciplinary information about the socio-psychological and economic context of this phenomenon becomes the prerogative of forming a bank of pre-project information for the architect and designer of the environment during the development and implementation of programs to improve the urban environment and the most important objects of socio-cultural and commercial services of the population. The article examines the role of shopping streets as a powerful tool in the socio-functional and compositional-spatial rehabilitation of peripheral areas of the city, increasing their consumer value, investment and tourist attractiveness.

The article represents a scientific understanding of the Orthodox story as a special genre form in the context of a powerful layer of Russian Orthodox prose. The key features of the genre of the story are identified, the specifics of Yu. Shamanskaya’s story is examined in the article. The study identified that in accordance with the tradition of the Russian classical story, the modern Orthodox story combines elements of social, lyrical and psychological. The "microenvironment" for the hero is his immediate environment, the action takes place in modernity, directly connected with the "past", explains it, and various aspects of reality given not in statics, but in development. At the same time, unlike the classical story, in the modern Orthodox story, firstly, the action takes place in our days, the present becomes the object of the image, but the hero is no longer equal to himself and his “plot”: he is depicted in crisis situations and the final rebirth; secondly, there is a layering (allusions to the novel by M. Bulgakov "The Master and Margarita", "Crime and Punishment" by F. Dostoevsky, in connection with which the plot development is determined by the motives of duality, mirror imagery, madness); thirdly, moral issues play a key role, pathos is determined by the most important idea - serving God as the highest Truth.

The object of the article: the works of contemporary artists working with the 360° format and creating the so-called. "spherical illustrations" or 360° illustrations, controlled panoramic images. Works were selected as material, reflecting the types of strategies for the work of artists with this medium, demonstrating the connection between the artist's intention and the formal, structural solution of the work. Subject of the article: the specifics of 360° illustration, its expressive possibilities, as well as the strategies of artists who turn to this format as an instrument of aesthetic impact on the viewer in the context of the modern communication society. The study is devoted to the actively developing phenomenon of 360° illustration, which is currently becoming increasingly popular among artists and delineates new aesthetic horizons for illustration as an art form. The main goal of the study is to identify the specifics of the phenomenon of spherical illustration in modern visual culture, the contextualization of 360° illustration in the field of modern visual culture. The author made the following conclusions: the 360° illustration is the ultimate version of the structure of the classical pictorial image with a direct perspective, which at the same time carries out a “Copernican revolution” in terms of the viewer’s attitude to the artistic image (from a passive recipient, he turns into active interpreter and co-author of the artist), thus, on the one hand, illustrators get to expand the repertoire of their own expressive means (partly borrowing the techniques of screen arts), and, on the other hand, the viewer gets the opportunity to be "inside" the image and experience it as a subjective aesthetic experience.

Politics as a sphere of public life is a border area for all other spheres, while it acquires a special dependence on the characteristics of behavior, which is significantly influenced by the cultural aspect. That is why the process of studying and analyzing the political sphere of the life of society involves the study, first of all, of the sociocultural factor. In this paper, the authors propose to consider it through three components: the positioning of a person as the main subject of politics, the features of mutual influence on political behavior of morality, morality, humanism, axeology and ethics, and the statement of this mutual influence through a formally legal element.

The first component is largely associated with symbolic constructs, since the role of a person as a subject or object of politics directly depends on the political picture of the world that he has. The more political experience a person has, the more realistic this picture is and, as a result, the more active the subject is in politics. The second component in itself is a symbolic construct, since outside of symbolism there is no culture and its constituent elements. Accordingly, influencing the political behavior of the individual, morality, morality, axeology, ethics, and especially humanism, permeate it with a symbolic component. Formally, the legal element fully embodies the features of the political conditions in which society and the state exist, and from this point of view it acts as a symbol of the era in which it is formed.

Taking into account the above interpretations, the authors conclude that outside the symbolic component it is impossible to comprehend the existing political problems and find ways to solve them.