Humanitarian workers operate in complex environments with various challenges and demanding working conditions. These challenges put aid workers in a range of risks and under the pressure. However, human resources are crucial for success of humanitarian operations in general. At the same time, each humanitarian operation is reliant on logistics and logistics activities are always connected with logistic staff. Understanding what motivates logisticians to join the humanitarian sector is essential information for humanitarian organizations and for recruiters within. Also, knowing which factors influence motivation and job satisfaction of humanitarian logisticians could help the organizations to struggle with the extremely turnover they have to face. Up to this moment, needed skills and the performance of humanitarian logisticians were examined. Also, the motivators of humanitarian workers are covered in previous research. Therefore, the additional aim of this research is to extend the knowledge about the human resources in humanitarian sector as well.

The importance, opportunities, and problems of the higher education system in the process of training personnel for the digital economy in the context of new industrialization have been considered. The analysis and synthesis of studies have been presented by leading organizations of Russia to understand the readiness of Russian higher education for online learning, openness and the willingness of lecturers to introduce modern educational technologies in their activities. Research devoted to the study of the online education perceiving by Russian consumers and their desire to use its capabilities, as well as business attitudes towards the training of online specialists, has been analyzed.