The article reveals the main provisions of the legal culture of cadets of the National Guard of Ukraine in the process of professional training, in the context of defining its essence, functions and mechanism. The content of legal culture is analyzed considering the fact that the changes take place in the system of vocational education, public relations, and personal consciousness.

The concept of the legal culture of cadets of the National Guard of Ukraine, we understand as the integrative personal quality, characterized by a valued attitude to law, conscious application of legal knowledge in professional activities based on intellectual, moral, reflective and communicative qualities of an individual.

Peculiarities of professional activity of military personnel of the National Guard of Ukraine strengthen the requirements to the legal culture of future officers, who must be able to determine their worldview priorities and to be responsible for their behavior.

The formation of the legal culture of future officers directly depends on the level and quality of their professional training in higher educational institution. An important role in the formation of the legal culture of future officers of the National Guard of Ukraine is played by worldview education, carried out by military commanders through perfect, focused on universal values, knowledge, skills and abilities within their worldview competence.

The professional training of cadets of the National Guard of Ukraine in a higher educational institution should be based on the norms of morality, ethics, religion, corporate norms and traditions, which also form the legal basis of their professional activity.

The presence of a high level of legal culture of the future officers of the National Guard of Ukraine after graduating from higher educational institution is a mandatory condition for the quality performance of their professional responsibilities.

Considering the current needs for training military personnel in the structure of the National Guard of Ukraine as high-level professionals, with the appropriate level of legal awareness and legal professional culture, it is necessary to clarify the concept, essence, content, functions and forms of legal education of cadets of the National Guard of Ukraine as the basics of their future professional activity.

Key words: legal culture, cadets of the National Guard of Ukraine, education, vocational training.

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