Keyword: «love for the motherland»

Gabdulla Tukai is a great Tatar poet who lived at the same time with the poets of the Silver Age. Naturally, his perception of the world was close to his contemporaries, among whom there were great masters of the artistic word. A connoisseur of the poetry of A. S. Pushkin, G. Tukai never ceased to admire the genius of the «sun of Russian poetry», sharing the universal admiration of the peoples of Russia for the boundless depth of the great poet's creativity. Love for a small homeland, the ability to compassion, the ability to admire beauty in its various manifestations – this is what brings Tukai closer to the poets of the Silver Age.

The article discusses the conditions for the formation of patriotic education on a cadet school. The formation of the motivational component of the choice of military profession takes place by means of lesson and extracurricular work. It is emphasized that the study of literature and the Russian language is an important factor in the formation of citizenship and patriotism.