Object - professional identity of the students; objective - determination of psychological features of professional identity formation of students of humanitarian profile; methods - theoretical methods (analysis, generalization, psychological data systematization), methods of empirical data collection, methods of mathematical statistics; novelty - the first determination of problems of professional identity formation of students of different education profiles - humanitarian (psychologists and philologists) and natural (pharmacists): low level of representation of professional characteristics in self-image, idealized representation of life success which is not connected with professional success, orientation toward the job stability at low level of significance of self-development as a specialist in the training direction being obtained; the first revelation of the features of professional identity formation of students of humanitarian profile in comparison with students of natural profile: humanitarians' more complete and clearer idea of the self-image structure peculiarities, of the professionals' personality features according to their education profiles, of their future in general and professional future in particular; specification of the idea of influence of educational profile and speciality being obtained on the process of professional identity formation, namely: speciality has greater impact on the students' professional identity formation in comparison with educational profile; deepening of the idea of the influence of the speciality being obtained within humanitarian profile on formation of future philologists' self-image: in self-image of future philologists a significant place is devoted to specific personal characteristics (of transcendental type) in contrast to the group of future psychologists whose self-image structure is the most balanced with respect to presence of personal characteristics and characteristics including professional activity reference; further development of the idea of the students' life journey and success: differences within humanitarian profile and degree of impact of gender characteristics on the life journey professional component; further development of the ideas of the professionals' images - representatives of different professions, namely: in the students' opinion, the universal characteristics inherent in professionals are "ability to assist", "tolerance", "reliability", and characteristic features of the professionals with humanitarian training are those which are responsible for the successful communication; results - may be used in the practice of diagnostic, consulting, developmental, correctional work of psychological service of higher educational institution as well as by professors and organizers of the educational process; may be used while teaching the following courses: "Introduction into speciality", "Developmental psychology", "Pedagogical psychology", "Higher school psychology", "Consulting psychology basic concepts", "Professional development psychology" in the course of professional training and practical psychologists' professional level increase; field - psychology
