Socio-Cultural Mentoring Practices in Cultural and Leisure Institutions of Agrarian Region

The article presents the study of the meaningful socio-cultural activities of cultural and leisure institutions’ employees, aimed at reproducing spiritual and moral values, ethno-cultural characteristics of the agrarian region through the practice of mentoring, training and education. A brief review of modern publications in the subject area of socio-cultural mentoring, as one of the mechanisms for the formation of spiritual and moral values, determined the theoretical basis of the study. The empirical part presents the results of a sociological study of the implementation of mentoring in the cultural and leisure complex of Stavropol Krai (Russia), organized in October-November 2023. The survey was conducted in electronic format via a Google form. A total of 261 people took part in the survey. Young people under the age of 30 who are related to the activities of the cultural sector were invited to participate in the survey (representatives of the agricultural region community). The results were processed in the SPSS Statistics program (version 24). The analytical materials obtained are important for improving management in the cultural sector, professional training of cultural workers in the region with a new mission of socio-cultural mentoring.