The article reveals the moral and aesthetic aspects of the pedagogical potential of Russian literature and their influence on the formation among cadets of military universities of a sense of belonging to the greatest mission of the Russian army, which is to liberate peoples from resurgent neo-fascism and nationalism. The heroic images and examples of courage and perseverance of the Russian soldier reflected in literature instill in future officers pride in belonging to the great Fatherland.

In the context of increasing social sensitivity, an unusually painful feature in the educational process, which manifests itself in the loss of mental and spiritual manifestations, the younger generation manifests itself in the most unprotected cultural and psychological category of the population. Pedagogical management of the creation of a safe educational environment in a pedagogical university in the process of studying literature is overcoming a spiritual crisis in modern conditions, the signs of which are the observed loss of moral guidelines, “a gap with all the values acquired by mankind” (Akimov V.), the reorientation of values from spiritual to material, pragmatic, the substitution of the ideals of the culture of our Fatherland with samples of the mass subculture of the West, which gives rise to negativism, primitivism, immoral behavior as a phenomenon of personality destruction. The content of the article is aimed at providing a safe educational environment in order to form value attitudes among students in the process of studying Russian literature and subsequently implemented by them throughout their lives.