The modern methodology of teaching Russian connects training with the formation of a several of important competencies, the key role of which is played not only by linguistic, communicative, but also linguistic local studies, within which linguistic studies are also recognised as a component of sociocultural competence. To study the culture of a country where a foreign student is located, the personality traits of speakers, their picture of the world. This approach is relevant in the field of training teachers for their further professional implementation in a multicultural space, as well as their familiarisation with the national moral, cultural and historical values of their people. And in this sense, it is the local history text as a didactic unit of instruction that can be considered the necessary link for the realisation of the trinity, in which, when used wisely, language, culture and human activity are combined using the interconnection of words, text and artefact.