Correlation between regional culture and the social space of a flagship university

Introduction. The article considers interaction of social institutions of culture and the phenomenon of university education through correlation between them. The goal is to identify characteristics and evaluate results of interaction of regional culture and social space of the flagship university. Materials and Methods. The philosophical methodology expresses the necessity of understanding culture and education from the cognitive perspective, and identifying the most general patterns of their functioning. Results. The authors emphasize the ambiguous role of universities in societies undergoing radical social transformation. They describe the continuous correlation between scientific knowledge, educational process, ideological value orientations originated by the university environment, and factors of regional cultural development, which can be considered as a force of scientific, technical and socio-economic development of the Chuvash Republic. The authors emphasize that the flagship university can become an implicit control mechanism of the socio-economic development of the region. The positive backup mechanism of decision-making by the regional authorities is possible when it is based on scientific and expert findings of scientists and researchers of the university. Conclusions. The authors summarize the characteristics and evaluate the results of the correlational interaction of regional culture and the social space of the flagship university.