History of the homeland or region: what is more relevant in the context of the Federal State Educational Standards?

Drawing on extensive involvement in the development of theoretical ideas and the practice of regionalizing general history education, the author highlights the question of the differences between the regional component and local history studies, illustrating the advantages of the former in maintaining a unified value-based educational space within the Russian Federation through examples of regional history textbooks. General conclusions were made by comparing the pedagogical concepts of “regional component” and “local history studies”, analyzing the “products” of participation by the subjects of the Russian Federation in creating history textbooks at the end of the 20th and the first quarter of the 21st century, and testing an innovative educational and methodological complex on the History of the Russian Far East for middle and high school students. The reasons and implications of the “2024-2025 project” are formulated in the context of school history education system reforms and the political-pedagogical reality.