The article analyzes the problem of professional identity of entrants who have just started their studies. The authors compare the features of the identity of those who stopped training in the chosen direction, and those who continued it. In a sample of 400 subjects, the authors show the place of the professional component in the system of identity of such students, and especially their connection with the crisis of identity, as well as its status. It turned out that among those who stopped studying, professional identity does not have a certain status and does not involve transformation due to the crisis, and among those students who continued their education, from the very beginning the educational and professional aspects of identity are a kind of core of transformation processes.

Kuzmin Mikhail Yur’evich, Candidate of Sciences (Psychology), Associate Professor, Irkutsk State University, 1, K. Marx st., Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation, e-mail: mirroy@mail.ru 

Konopak Igor Aleksandrovich, Candidate of Sciences (Philosophy), Associate Professor, Dean, Faculty of Psychology, Irkutsk State University 1, K. Marx, st., Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation, e-mail: iakonopak@gmail.com 

Mironova Elena Ivanovna, Senior Lecturer, Irkutsk State University, 1, K. Marx st., Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation, e-mail: mirroy@mail.ru 

Osipenok Oksana Aleksndrovna, Candidate of Sciences (Pedagogy), Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Foreign Languages for Training Non-Linguistic Specialities, Institute of Philology, Foreign Languages and Media Communication, Irkutsk State University, 1, K. Marx st., Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation, e-mail: cominagetcha@mail.ru

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