The basis of the concept of humanitarization in education lies in the orientation of education towards solving problems in the field of modern civilization and culture. The problem of comprehensive consideration of the ethnic dimension of Russian society is among the fundamental problems that determine the strategy for the development of national education. The humanitarization in education is seen in the fact that through the sphere of education, a person can feel his or her ethnic, cultural, and historical uniqueness simultaneously with the realization of their belonging to world history. The concept of the humanitarization in education serves as the basis for building a multicultural educational environment, in the conditions of which the formation of multicultural thinking takes place, reflecting globalist trends. The paper analyses the functions of multicultural education: philosophical and cultural, ethical and humanistic, educational and reflexive, personal and developing in the context of the author's concept of humanitarization.