Abstract. The article considers the attitude of modern student youth in the Great Patriotic War as a special, significant historical event considered by the authors within the framework of one of the elements of the pentabasis «country-patriotism» and from the standpoint of the spiritual and moral values of Russia. In the system of instruments of the culture of perception of the Great Patriotic War, student youth of memory, the initial link is the development of patriotism as the initial part of the value principles of pentabasis, which is greatly influenced by individual and collective historical memory.

Keywords: spiritual and moral values, perception of the Great Patriotic War, student youth, development trends, patriotism, historical memory, patriotic feelings, the concept of pentabasis.