摘要:Abstract Intercultural upbringing of pupils and students is one of the fundamental and topical issues. Today education is becoming more open to intercultural cooperation and tolerance. Thus, it is necessary to use a potential of an educational process and a family in the cultures dialogue formation. The paper presents a theoretical and empirical study of intercultural upbringing of students through family traditions; it also explains the need of applying educational potential of family traditions in intercultural interaction formation while training of students - future teachers and parents. The study was conducted among the students of the Institute of Psychology and Education at Kazan Federal University.