Keyword: «volunteer»

The article examines the activities of the volunteer movement in the Smolensk branch of Plekhanov Russian University of Economics during the epidemiological period of the COVID-19 pandemic. The significance of students ' voluntary initiative is described.

Wars were always started by politicians with the help of financial means and equipment, and ordinary soldiers finished. But a good soldier still needs to be called, dressed, fed, trained, armed, motivated to win and throw into battle. In this regard, mobilization and its entire system on a state scale remains very relevant in the modern age of nuclear and hypersonic technologies. A victory in the war bring ordinary people who need to provide everything necessary. In the article, on the basis of the above, the system of recruitment and training of specialists of the intendant service, within the mobilization company of the Russian-Japanese war of 1904-1905 is considered.

The article presents an analysis of the volunteer movement in the city of Syzran. Based on empirical data, a conclusion is made about the significant role of volunteering in the military-patriotic education of young people. The diversity of forms and directions of volunteer activity is noted, as well as the presence of consistency in the education of the younger generation, stable motivation of the need for public service is emphasized.

The article examines the fate of people involved in a special military operation conducted by Russia. The motivation of those who volunteer for the front is revealed. The emphasis is on what drives such people a sense of duty. This is a duty to oneself, to family, to relatives and friends who make up a close circle. It shows how this close circle expands with the inner growth of the characters and their understanding of the events taking place. It is emphasized that the heroes consider themselves called upon to stop the evil that brings death and destruction of destinies, or by virtue of the possibilities to help those who are fighting this evil. As a result, the sense of involvement of the heroes in the fate of the country is aggravated. In addi-tion, the article traces the spiritual growth of the heroes.

The relevance of the work is related to the fact that the involvement of teenagers in various types of volunteer activities for the benefit of their homeland is one of the priority tasks of bringing up the younger generation today. The purpose of the work was to study the relationship between the prevailing motives of volunteer activity of adolescents with the level of social activity and to identify the pedagogical conditions of their development. The main methodological approach determining the conceptual aspects of the study was the personal activity approach, which involves focusing on the upbringing of a teenager's personality in volunteer activities by increasing his motivation and social activity of participation in socially useful activities. The article shows that the involvement of a significant number of volunteers makes it possible to effectively implement national projects, hold large-scale events in different territories of our country; volunteer activity is an important factor in the education, socialization of young people, and prevention of deviant behavior. However, in some cases, volunteers are involved according to formal characteristics, without taking into account their motives, which affects the level of their social activity in volunteer projects. During the empirical study, standardized methods were used to study the motivation and social activity of adolescents. Results: it was found that in the studied group of adolescents who expressed a desire to participate in volunteer activities, the motivation to help other people, the motivation to achieve success without a predominance of the motivation to avoid failures, and the motivation of affiliation were sufficiently expressed. Indicators of social activity and orientation to humanistic norms of life activity had a high and average level. The correlation analysis revealed pronounced statistically significant relationships between the studied indicators of motivation and indicators of social activity in adolescent volunteers. The theoretical significance lies in the systematization, generalization, clarification of conceptual characteristics concerning the prevailing motivation of volunteer activities and their social activity, and the identification of pedagogical conditions for their development. The practical significance is determined by the possibility of using the developed diagnostic program, the obtained research results, and the proposed pedagogical conditions for studying, accounting and developing the motivation of adolescents in order to increase their social activity and participation in volunteer projects.