The article’s purpose is a comprehensive theoretical and legal analysis of the conditions for transforming traditional marriage and family values, taking into account the modern realities of Russian family policy. The article also illustrates the main trends in family fundamentals changes, as young people of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation view it. All this will facilitate the wording of an integral concept of the value legal regulation of family relations in Russia. The general scientific and unique cognition methods were used to achieve the stated purpose of the study. A particular method of scientific research was the method of sociological survey (questionnaire survey). The theoretical conclusions and practical recommendations formulated as a result of the study aim to form an effective pro-family policy. Such policy should increase the prestige of Russian society’s spiritual and ideological traditional family values.

The article objective was to identify the level of professional burnout and its assessment with reference to a set of social and professional characteristics of social workers in Russia. The research novelty was in considering burnout as part of the social worker’s established image. The authors proceeded from the assumption that social worker occupation, which involves direct contact with people in difficult life situations, is obviously one of the most conducive to the development of an occupational burnout syndrome, and it is perceived in society this way. Low wages, combined with a significant emotional stress, act as factors contributing to the employee’s professional disorganization. Nevertheless, as it was found in the study, in the specific conditions of Russia, the general characteristics of social workers presuppose not only a desire to continue professional activity in the chosen specialty, but also a relatively low percentage of people with a high degree of occupational burnout.

Modern society, whose typical features, among other characteristics, are the growth and development of the advertising industry, is more and more interested in public service advertising whose goal is to draw the attention of a wider audience to social problems. The result of public service advertising is the formation of certain moral and value attitudes. Advertising influences the consciousness of people by promoting a certain attitude to life and ensuring the relevance of moral and social values, as well as an active socio-political position. In general, public service advertising is regarded as a means of regulating social processes. Avoiding the extremes of coercion and indifference, public service advertising makes the individual focused on the problems that should be addressed. The research goal is to analyze the experience accumulated by government bodies regarding the use of public service advertising for solving social problems. Methodology. The study was conducted in 2019-2020 at Yelets State Ivan Bunin University (Lipetsk Region). The subject matter of the research was the population of the Lipetsk region (n=1200). The scope of the study was the use of public service advertising in the government activities and the attitude of the population to public service advertising. Results and their analysis. As an instrument of influence on public consciousness and a factor in the formation of certain behavioral models, public service advertising implies interaction among society, public organizations, business, and government bodies. It is a method of targeted impact on society aimed at solving social problems. The development of public service advertising is driven by the changing attitude to social problems, both by government bodies and people, most of whom consider public service advertising to be an effective tool for raising social problems and improving social behavior. Health and family remain important themes of public service advertising. By drawing attention to social phenomena and problems, public service advertising promotes humanity, law, and care in society. Focus on public order, protection of public and personal interests and civil rights increases legal awareness in society. There is still public demand for public service advertising that stimulates people’s interest in certain projects, programs, organizations, usually non-profit. Event advertising successfully informs the audience about upcoming festive events, historical dates, and strengthens common social memory. Public service advertising does not contradict basic social attitudes, and its study is useful for understanding and interpreting public consciousness.

The article is devoted to the problem of textual sources of Gogol’s youthful letters (1820–1824) and the special role played by the preserved censored copy of the V volume of Works and letters of Gogol by P.A. Kulish (1857). The practical significance of the research is its connection with the preparation of the new academic Complete works and letters of N.V. Gogol in 23 vols. and, in particular, the first of the volumes of the epistolary block. Objective difficulties associated with the search for Gogol’s autographs are noted, a list of archives, which currently stores letters of this period, with source characteristics is presented. The special significance of the censored copy, which is an independent scientific value and has an additional (textual) status is indicated: it is the only source of those letters whose autographs are missing. The article reflects the results of comparing censorship copies with the preserved original scripts of Gogol’s letters, which shows a large extent the textological quality of this source. The author outlines main features and features of the preserved censorship copies, systematizes and describes their main differences from autographs. An analytical review of the censorship copies’ texts was the basis for the proposed conclusions. They provide quite good reasons for the possibility of using the preserved censorship copies as the main source of Gogol’s epistolary texts whose autographs have been lost.

The article analyzes the assessment of the ecological state of the territory by its population in a small town to study the state of public environmental awareness. According to official data, the city of Yelets and the Lipetsk region in general face a significant number of unresolved environmental problems against the background of a quite stable ecological situation. Given the general complex ecological situation in the region, the assessment of the ecological situation in specific settlements, rooted in the local agenda, can be radically different. This allows us to speak about the primary attention of the population to their local place of residence and the problems they face directly. The involvement of the population in the activities to preserve the environment of the region as a whole requires promoting public environmental awareness through a competent environmental policy by state and municipal authorities.