Abstract. The article deals with the problems associated with the value system of national culture; defines its main value concepts. The article also identifies the main factors that threaten the integrity of the national traditional value-semantic system; as these main reasons and factors, the oligarchic and westernistic tendencies of the domestic elite are determined, which do not take into account the socio-cultural and historical realities and thereby destroy the value foundations of Russian society and the state. The cultural and historical essence and genealogy of these trends are revealed. Possible ways of overcoming the current situation in the present conditions are determined.