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The article outlines the actual processes taking place in the Armed Forces of Russia concerning contract servicemen. The definitions of the concepts of professional training, readiness for professional activity, including the professional activity of an officer are given. The components, criteria and indicators of diagnostics of the level of readiness of cadets of educational organizations to work with this category of servicemen are specified. On the basis of the author’s model the article analyses the results of cadets’ training on the example of Saratov Military Order of Zhukov Red Banner Institute of National Guard Forces of the Russian Federation to work with contract servicemen in the positions of soldiers and sergeants. The conclusion indicates the general level of cadets’ readiness to work with this category of servicemen, as well as the further course of its formation and diagnostics.
M. A. Shchukin (Sun,) studied this question.