Introduction. The presented article is devoted to the justification of the training of psychological vitality as an effective means of psychological training for cadets in Saint-Peterburg University of the State Fire Service of Emercom of Russia to conduct combat operations on fire fighting and carrying out rescue operations in their future professional activity. The authors determine the relevance of the topic by the existing gap between the requirements of professional activity imposed on the

person and the absence in educational programs of training specialists in the field of fire safety of reasonable practices of formation of the required competences.

Psychological vitality is considered by the authors as a key ability of the personality, ensuring in extreme conditions of activity the level of efficiency and mental functioning, optimal for making decisions, full realization of knowledge and experience.

Materials and methods. The main methods of research are: analysis of scientific literature on problems of psychology and psychophysiology of activity in extreme conditions, as well as normative and statistical documents; Operationalization of the concept of psychological vitality through empirical characteristics and the corresponding methodical complex; modeling of training.

Results. The training is justified as an effective means of psychological preparation of cadets for solving combat tasks in the extreme conditions of professional activity. Viability is operationalized, methodological tools for its research are proposed. A conceptual model of training is presented, goals, methods, and techniques are described.

Discussion. Initial basis of development of training of psychology vitality for students is the educed disparity between requirementsto desc- riptions of personality and facilities of their forming in the main and additional educational programs of preparation  of specialists in area of fire safety. Despite the rather high level of subject training in the field of extreme psychology, in educational conditions, close and preceding real combat actions, cadets experience the strongest stress, which does not allow to use the acquired knowledge.

The training is an effective means of filling the revealed gap between professional requirements and educational program by creating conditions for expanding understanding of their interaction with the world at the cognitive level, reflexive work on search of meaning and life values, activity development of resilient practices.

It is expected that learned meanings, knowledge, practices will be interiorized in the form of vitality attitudes, which in turn will be ex-

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