Youth policy in the Republic of Mordovia in the 1990-2020s: main trends

Introduction. It is well known that the collapse of the Soviet Union and, with it, the Komsomol as the main youth organization, led to the loss of spiritual support among young people, which entailed the cultivation of antisocial values and radical ways of protecting their interests by creating antisocial groups. In these conditions, there is a need to form and plan a competent state youth policy. Regional youth policy is of great importance, which is due to the fact that the uniqueness of the various needs of young people in a particular region is taken into account. The purpose of the article is to identify the main trends in regional youth policy of the post-Soviet period in the Republic of Mordovia based on the analysis of regulatory legal acts.