Recently, the growing attention of researchers, experts, politicians has attracted the issue of the spiritual and moral development of Russian youth. Young people are the bearer of the prospects in their original state. On how the spiritual and moral development of the younger generation, including the installation of moral guidelines, depends today and the future of the country. The establishment of the right vector of development can become a prevention and solution of the problems of patriotic education, extremism and various kinds of intolerance (religious, ethnic, social, political, etc.), so the issues of spiritual and moral development, which in turn are closely connected with civil-patriotic orientations, always in the focus of attention of sociologists.