This article analyzes the current academic discourse on "distance mentoring" based on American, European and Japanese experience. A research of contemporary approaches to distance mentoring with HEE (higher educational establishment) participation is presented, and the issue of ethics of external mentoring is considered. As a result of the research, the author-developed mechanisms for distance mentoring of graduate pedagogues at the Moscow City University (MСU) were developed, and the mentor.mgpu.ru digital mentor service was tested. In the course of the research, based on the action research logic, observation, quantitative (surveys) and qualitative (focus groups and collaborative design) research methods were used. The article describes the technologies and functions of distance mentoring designed for teachers with up to three years of experience. A case method for consulting novice teachers is presented, which involves shifting away from the traditional assignment of a mentor to a specific mentee, which allows to make mentoring more technical and point-based, to introduce semi-automated technologies, to accelerate the integration of the pedagogue into the profession. In the course of testing the distance mentoring platform, the most acute problems of novice teachers were identified, mechanisms of interaction between HEE and school in solving difficult situations of a young pedagogue were tested, risk areas were identified.