Monografiya napisana na osnove dissertatsionnoy raboty, posvyashchyennoy problemam, svyazannym s priobreteniem morskikh i rechnykh spetsial'nostey kursantami rechnogo uchilishcha. Osveshchena problema stanovleniya lichnosti kursantov i vliyaniya na nikh sredy v protsesse pogruzheniya v poluvoennuyu sredu obucheniya i vospitaniya. Rassmotreny osobennosti sredy pogruzheniya, patterny povedeniya i individual'nye osobennosti kursantov, a takzhe priobretenie imi sotsial'nykh roley, sposobstvuyushchikh ikh dal'neyshemu professional'nomu i lichnostnomu rostu. Raskryty psikhologicheskie osobennosti stanovleniya lichnosti molodykh lyudey v vozraste 16-22let. Rabota rasschitana na vospitateley, prepodavateley, pedagogov-psikhologov i sotsial'nykh pedagogov, rabotayushchikh v voennykh i poluvoennykh uchebnykh zavedeniyakh. A tak zhe vsekh zhelayushchikh.