At present, in Russia, the younger generation's legal upbringing is one of the priority areas of modernising state educational policy. It is based on a system of knowledge and understanding of the law and actions aimed at their practical implementation, which is directly related to the state of education and upbringing in society. The main issue in the modernisation of education should be the expansion and deepening of the legal knowledge of students and the cultivation of legal behavior, the development of strong legal traditions, and the direct overcoming of legal nihilism. This study aims to develop a mechanism that can increase the level of legal awareness among young people and overcome legal nihilism. Based on the theoretical analysis of scientific literature, the system of normative legal acts, the results of a sociological survey, authors concluded that in achieving the designated goal, the educational environment occupies a fundamental but not an exhaustive place, and the globality of the considered problem necessitates the involvement of all mechanisms of the state in its resolution and civil society. These circumstances require adopting the Strategy of Legal Education and Upbringing of Youth as a document of strategic planning at the federal level.

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