The article is based on the results of two years of teaching experience of the course "Fundamentals of Russian Statehood" and the implementation of the project "Meanings and types of patriotism of modern youth: a regional aspect" (2024), one of the tasks of which was to find out the opinions of students and experts regarding the above-mentioned discipline (quantitative stage: online survey of undergraduate students, quota sample, N = 922, September–October 2024; qualitative stage: the interviews with the experts in the fi eld of patriotic education and youth policy in S
