The article is devoted to the problem of patriotic education of the younger generation on the historical heritage of the Great Patriotic War. It provides a critical analysis of the state of knowledge of this topic. Special attention is paid to acute and debatable issues related to the interpretation of this most important event in our national history. The analysis of legal regulation in the field of education in the Constitution of the Russian Federation (Adopted by popular vote on December 12, 1993 with amendments approved during the all-Russian vote on July 1, 2020) and the formation of the Russian Federation. The article examines the issues of patriotic education and the formation of national self-awareness of youth on the examples of the heroism of the Soviet people, captured in the literature about the Great Patriotic War. A line is drawn of the conceptual significance of the successive transmission of the traditions of the heroic past of our country to subsequent generations. The experience of general education institutions of the city district of Nalchik on the organization of patriotic education of students is generalized. The article highlights traditional and innovative forms and means of forming civic values of youth.

The article is devoted to the problem of patriotic education of the younger generation on the historical heritage of the Great Patriotic War. It provides a critical analysis of the state of knowledge of this topic. Special attention is paid to acute and debatable issues related to the interpretation of this most important event in our national history. The analysis of legal regulation in the field of education in the Constitution of the Russian Federation (Adopted by popular vote on December 12, 1993 with amendments approved during the all-Russian vote on July 1, 2020) and the formation of the Russian Federation. The article examines the issues of patriotic education and the formation of national self-awareness of youth on the examples of the heroism of the Soviet people, captured in the literature about the Great Patriotic War. A line is drawn of the conceptual significance of the successive transmission of the traditions of the heroic past of our country to subsequent generations. The experience of general education institutions of the city district of Nalchik on the organization of patriotic education of students is generalized. The article highlights traditional and innovative forms and means of forming civic values of youth.