Keyword: «socio-cultural competence»

This article touches upon the issues of forming foreign language communicative competence by using biographies of famous personalities of the region in the process of learning a foreign language. The author examines the problem of the formation of local history knowledge and also gives examples of ways of introducing the topic during foreign language classes, paying special attention to the possibility of using the socio-cultural material of the region for the formation of socio-cultural competence as an integral part of communicative competence, as well as cultural identity and love for the Motherland.