The history of formation of engineering ethics in Russia is considered. The main periods are emphasized and main problems for each of the periods are identified. The main feature of the first or pre-revolutionary period was the participation of the technical intelligentsia (representatives of well educated people - engineers, scientists) in the formation of ethics of an engineer. The second or Soviet period is associated with the emphasis on the ideological and managerial functions of the professional ethics of an engineer. The third or post-Soviet period is characterized by a shift to the theoretical and methodological field. It is shown that engineering ethics in Russia was formed in the unity of axiological, normative and discursive approaches despite specific features of each of the periods.

From the second half of the XX century history of philosophy has appeared in the very center of a number of vivid and vehement discussions of both methodological and disciplinary character. Scholars were primarily focused upon founding approaches to provide their field with the novel piece of knowledge. At the same time, historical studies in philosophy should have been demoted to the level of the sphere for specialists in case they fail to formulate such a research programme. The present paper considers the most illustrious projects in the field of history of philosophy in the past century. It also represents the results of analyses of various methodological approaches to rethinking the essence of historian of philosophy’s craft, considering the latter as the philosopher, investigator, and scholar. We also discuss such significant historical as philosophical approaches as comparativistics, the history of ideas, doxography, that allowed eminent scholars and authors of the XX century to reconsider the value and importance of the history of philosophy as an independent field of investigation.

From the perspective of the methodology of philosophical and cultural analysis, the specifics and principles of functioning of modern business environment and its business culture are considered, an important component of which is a new form of organizational culture-corporate culture. The corporate culture is explored as a modern socio-cultural phenomenon, reflecting the leading trends in social development in the global economy and digital technologies. The article considers a system of value bases that defines corporate culture and culture as a new type of organization, both as a new form of business culture, and as a new level of management based on the nomination of human capital as the main asset of any organization. Particular attention is paid to the attributive component of the value kernel of the corporate culture of the organization in the conditions of digital realities, which is expressed, first of all, in the system of modern branding.

The purpose of this article is a philosophical analysis of new forms of teaching, using multimedia technologies; their effectiveness is assessed as well as the problems arising in the process of new methods of working. The problems that have arisen in higher education due to the rapid development of information technologies are studied. The main application advantages of multimedia technologies and their application in teaching Humanities are described.

The heuristic potential of discourse analysis and content analysis in study of political reformation in Russia is considered. The attention is drawn to methodological problems, which appear in the process of systemic social research of systemic political processes. The content analysis of the Addresses of the President of the Russian Federation shows correlation between discussion about reformation and actual course of reform. In this connection understanding of the text as a social reality is substantiated and actuality of discourse analysis and content analysis of political realm increases.

The article is devoted to the compilation and analysis of existing methodological approaches to research of the process of social identification in the philosophical and sociological science. The characteristics of the process of social identification are revealed on philosophical and sociological level. The history of the formation of the concept of identity, a brief review of the ideas associated with the study of identity in the areas of philosophy and psychology is considered. The approaches to the research of the identification process in different schools and directions of sociology are considered. The major sociological aspects of studying an identification problem among the Russian youth are identified. The heuristic network method to study identification revealed the benefits of its axiological direction. The effect of values on the identification choice of today's youth is indicated.

Migration studies and questions from an importance position for ethnosociological space of studying of migration problems in Russia and the related problems of ethnosociology as identity, ethnicity, conflict, and ethnic structure are considered. The attention is paid to a problem of ethnicity and approaches to its interpretation. Special attention is paid to the aspect of ethnic migration as a phenomenon as well as from the point of view of approaches. A number of problem areas in the study of ethnic migration such as: a generational problem, adaptation strategies in the urban environment (based on the examples of particular research), political measurement of migration, discriminatory social practices, formation of social networks of migrant communities are considered in the article.

The goals and objectives of the management accounting system of a commercial enterprise and their features in modern conditions are considered, the requirements to the management accounting system in modern conditions of economy, approaches to managerial decision making are defined. New approaches to organization of the accounting system and its component parts, including the administrative account, allow different types of costs to be calculated. The different types of cost - "standard-cost", "direct-cost", cost accounting by responsibility centers are required for various management purposes, including pricing and strategic policy of the enterprise.

The analysis of the problems connected with quality models formation of educational services is carried out. It is shown that formation of such model on the basis of methods, researches of influence of factors which connection with a productive indicator has functional character widely applied in economic calculations is possible. The method of structuring factors and formation of a general model of quality of educational services is offered. The main problems of practical application of models with a limited length of the factorial field of direct connections are described and analyzed at the insufficient level of knowledge of the nature of direct connections. As a result sub criteria of the model are referred to the integrated groups, methodological advantages of the obtained results to ensuring adoption of administrative decisions are shown

The heterogeneity of the economic space of the Russian Federation in key indicators of economic development of the territories is discussed. Theoretical and methodological aspects of economic security of territories in clarifying conceptual framework and allocation of the regional dimension of the study of economic security are considered. Special attention is paid to the depressive regions, posing a threat to the economic security of the Russian Federation. The methods, models, indicators, criteria for identification of depressive regions are discussed. The regions related to depressive determined in the result of study of 60 regions within eight federal districts are shown; assessment of their investment potential and its rational use of marketing tool is performed and confirmed by examples.