Keyword: «professional worldview»

The article examines the role of a foreign language in shaping the professional worldview of future historians. The relevance of the study is driven by Russia's integration into the global scientific and educational space, the digitalization of historical knowledge, and the need for critical analysis of foreign sources. The aim of the paper is to theoretically substantiate the importance of a foreign language as an essential component of a historian's professional development. Based on the analysis of scholarly literature, the essence of a historian's professional worldview is revealed as an integrative quality encompassing historical thinking, a value system, and the ability for intercultural communication in the professional sphere. It is shown that a foreign language acts as a mechanism for developing these components, providing access to authentic sources and international academic dialogue. The necessity of integrating historical and linguistic education as a key pedagogical condition for realizing this potential is substantiated.