Main factors in shaping inter-ethnic concepts of senior school pupils

The article analyses some results of an empiric research carried out in 11 schools of 3 regions of Russia. It has revealed a positive effect of actualisation of educational ethnocultural aspect on the formation of tolerance among the pupils. It has also established a direct interdependence between the degree of inter-ethnic tolerance and education of all-Russia (civic) identity as well as the state of inter-ethnic relations in the region