Regional features of the formation of the professional culture of future specialists

The purpose of the article is to identify regional specifics in shaping the professional culture of the future specialists. The authors propose to take into account the current specifics of economic development of a particular territory, in particular, specifics of a region, in shaping the professional competencies and professional culture of the future specialists. The article analyses the influence caused by the trends of digitalization of public relations on the requirements to professional competencies and professional culture of specialists. The authors study a set of measures for improvement of the educational system on the basis of enacted laws and regulations. The heart of the existing HR-related problems is being unveiled in the article with allowance for regional specifics. The article highlights and describes the characteristic regional features of the Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, Kurgan, Orenburg regions, Perm Krai, and the Republic of Bashkortostan, such features being considered critical for building the future specialists' competencies and the potential of human resources as a whole. The authors refer to the regional projects implemented for resolving the existing problems in the field of training of sought-after and highly qualified specialists. The necessity for updating requirements to the shaping of the professional culture of future specialists is substantiated in the local context of regional specifics, taking account of the trends for the economic globalization and digitalization. The authors formulate their propositions for adjustment of the requirements to the shaping of professional competencies and professional culture of specialists.