The relevance of the study is based on the activation of various aspects of intercultural communication in multiethnic schools in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia); the theme selection is determined by the practical need to develop intercultural competence in students and undergraduates. Refinement of scientific knowledge about the specifics, specification of the content of intercultural competence components in students and undergraduates in the multicultural and multilingual environment in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) is a pedagogical social contract. The results of this study are of interest for specialists, educators; they expand the opportunities to assess the situation of organizing coherent, continuous work on the formation of intercultural competence in students; these include the problems of preservation and revitalization of languages and cultures of the Arctic peoples: national culture and philology; problems of interaction and functioning of languages and literature in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia); cognitive linguistics and the problem of linguistic consciousness, communication theories (intercultural communication).

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