Keyword: «house of culture»

The article, based on the specifics of communication in institutions of club type, the basic structure of the components of the process of preparation of mass socio-cultural programs: content, purpose, objectives, means, forms and methods, the result of social and cultural communication in a club-type facilities.

The article is devoted to the organization of the international work of cultural institutions in the 60-70s of the XX century. The basis for this is the experience of the cultural institutions of the city of Stavropol-Togliatti, Kuibyshev region. During this period, the city was experiencing the emergence as a new industrial center of the Volga region. In the late 1960s, forty-two nationalities were represented in Togliatti. Cultural institutions (clubs, cultural centers, libraries, city park) actively developed forms and methods of international work aimed at bringing together representatives of different ethnic groups and cultures. The author of the article emphasizes the description of the peculiarities of the international work of the city's libraries. Identifies the forms and methods of the library work of the period under study.