Foreign Languages in the Educational Space of Southern Federal University of Russia

The authors have revealed the concept of educational space as a set of objective-subjective components, including regulatory and legal requirements for higher professional education, scientific-theoretical bases of professionally-oriented world-view of students, the totality of the content and technologies of teaching and education, individual and creative environment of self-development of the students. There have been identified the key characteristics of the Federal University: tendency to the world educational space; expansion of the range of educational services and research; the integration of scientific and educational activities; intensive development of intellectual capital and commercialization of scientific achievements. The Mission of Southern Federal University in Russia has been defined as preservation and development of scientific and educational environment for the formation of citizens who are able to serve Russia and the entire world to the best. The role of foreign languages in the formation of local and meta-educational space of Southern Federal University has been proven.