The relevance of the article is due to the fact that one of the main current educational directions defining humanist culture of a personality is a sound grasp of a language of the personality. This requires identifying new ways to the content of education that consists in preparing a new generation of teachers who would work well within economic and social digitization, ethnical and sociocultural diversity. The goal of the study is to identify specifics of linguistic identity of the teacher of federal and departmental higher educational establishments of the Russian Federation located in Kazan. We assume that specifics of linguistic identity influences on the ability of the teacher to present training material, besides a type of educational organization shape the teacher’s personality. The Institute of Psychology and Education of Kazan (Volga region) Federal University teachers and students and the Kazan Law Institute of MIA of Russia teachers, cadets and students took part in the study. Factorial qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews of the student body, questionnaires were used as empirical methods. The article presents several examples of linguistic identities of the teachers from each the educational establishments and some observations about them. The materials presented in the article allow to draw conclusion: linguistic identity formation lasts during the whole life, thus self-education of the personality within the field should not only focus on school or including when a person depending on the type of his/her professional activity should be a role model for his/her subordinated.

linguistic personality, elite linguistic personality, professional linguistic personality, teacher