The article analyzes the historiography of the last two decades of the Great Patriotic War. It is noted that they key problems of historical science have been its further expansion and the theoretical improvement of researches in the field of military history; recreation, based on the scientific analysis of objective, historically truthful picture of the causes, course and the results of the war; identification of sources and patterns of soviet's people victory in the Great Patriotic War.

At present, IT have become an indispensable condition for the quality of education, but they are rarely applied in education of senior citizens and their range is quite narrow. An exception is the methods of teaching computer literacy to older adults, which is much narrower than IT in education. Meanwhile, they are no less essential both for adaptation of the elderly to the contemporary conditions of life and for the young generations. The authors prove that application of these technologies can change the quality of life for older adults and enables them to extend their professional activity, to broaden their scope of communication, and to raise their level of social adaptation to the environment and daily life. It has been found during the research conducted that the use of IT in education of senior citizens has some essential features and requires special conditions of application. In the research, questionnaire survey and testing, indepth interview, expert survey, and participant observation methods were used that allowed studying the senior citizens' demands for educational services, computer literacy improvement, as well as barriers and risks in their getting the education, conditions for enhancing its efficiency. During the research, disadvantages in development of IT and software products targeted for education of the aged have been found. The results obtained allow contributing to the development of concepts of thriving old age, active longevity, and higher social and professional engagement of older adults. They are of great importance both for the very senior citizens and for education providers, as well as for developers of educational software products needed by older adults and their teachers.

The research is relevant due to the interest of scientific pedagogical community to the problems of spiritual and moral education in modern Russian society, the identification of means of its development. In this regard, this paper aims at revealing the theoretical foundations and practical mechanisms of development of volitional qualities of pupils in the context of pedagogy of consciousness. The leading approaches to the research of this problem are the ontological-axiological and esoteric-activity-oriented approaches which allow considering the problem of volition in the pedagogy of consciousness. The leading empirical method is the experiment. The paper presents the essence and content of the concept of "volition" and "volitional qualities" in the psychological and pedagogical literature and pedagogy of consciousness, the structure of development of volition, the theoretical basis for the development of volitional qualities in the pedagogy of consciousness and the methods of developing volitional qualities identified during the empirical study. The materials of the paper are of practical value for researchers of problems of education, students, and pedagogues of schools and institutions of leisure.

Relevance of the problem under study is explained by the beginning of a new stage in the development of Russian volunteer movement in the field of preservation of cultural monuments, which coincided with the rise of research interest in volunteering in general. The objective of this paper consists in comprehensive analysis of the modern history of restoration voluntary movement in Russia, examination of evolvement of public voluntary practices in the field of protection of the architectural heritage of the country in the context of general cultural, socio-economic, political processes that have taken place in Russia over the past decades, which have determined the specific organizational forms, content and activities of voluntary activists. The leading approach to the study of this problem is the historical method, as well as methodological principles of historicism, scientificity, objectivity, as well as sociality, integrity and fundamentality, involving the study of the historical process of volunteering in the totality of facts and sources in their logical and chronological sequence. The paper describes the main forms of volunteer practices for monument preservation, gives an overview of volunteer initiatives, as well as the efforts of charitable foundations and public organizations aimed at rescuing the cultural heritage of the country, identifies the development trajectories of restoration volunteering, and also specifies the key trends, based on which the tendency to professionalization and gradual expansion of the scope of voluntary work has been revealed. Materials of the paper can be useful not only for scientists, engaged in research of problems of social history of our country, but also for specialists from social sphere, organizers of work with youth, and also students of socio-humanitarian and pedagogical profiles.

Modern architecture is based on new concept, new methods, requires new approaches, directions and goals, which should not be confined within narrow formal compositional requirements, but should be considered comprehensively: information, science and the environment in general predetermined the development of new directions. On the one hand, the main principles of architectural systems are dynamism, variability, adaptation of the compositional structure to the modern requirements of life, on the other hand, the gradual penetration of new ideas from the field of philosophy, ecology, and anthropology into the field of architecture. This paper is devoted to the formation of creative skills in teaching the basics of architectural design. The main goal of the conceptual approach in student course design is the development of creative potential, the formation of an individual creative method for each student, the importance of understanding the place of architecture in all spheres of human activity and in the overall ecosystem.