The article is devoted to the study of one of the topical issues of modern linguistic and methodic science - formation of the linguistic knowledge of the bilingual students on the basis of cultural approach. According to the authors of the study, Russian as a worldview subject is intended to form a bilingual language personality, to ensure unity and interaction of language, culture and personality. The cultural approach implies organic unity of the foundations of the linguistics and mastery of communicative skills and skills, ensuring fluent knowledge of Russian literary language in different spheres and situations of communication. Considering the text-centric method as the main linguistic and methodic technique, the author of the article claims the role of the text in the formation of linguistic knowledge of the bilingual students. The given paper concludes that the interaction of the processes of formation of knowledge about language, acquisition of practical speech and language skills, understanding of the read or heard information is carried out on a textual basis. The practical significance of the study is that at the lessons of the Russian language, based on a cultural approach, it is important to work with educational and scientific texts, which serve as means of linguistic knowledge acquiring and are aimed at achieving meta-subject results of the bilingual students.

lingual didactics, culture-studying approach, formation of the linguistic knowledge, linguistic personality, bilingual students, meta-subject results, understanding of the text.