摘要：The article reveals the essence of the sociocultural approach as a universal tool which allows considering the process of modernization of cadet education in modern Russia in the complex determining its conditions and factors. The basic mechanisms of functioning of cadet education system are the processes that form the equilibrium diad "tradition – modernity". Sociocultural approach is interpreted as a concretization of universal evolutionism principle which is a compound of evolution idea with ideas of systemic approach. Sociological research based on empirical data confirms its worth for all educational systems. The authors define perspective directions and forms of institutionalization of socio-cultural modernization of cadet education in modern conditions.
