Lifelong professional education in the Russian federation: Personal aspect

© 2016 The Author(s).The article analyzes the problem of realization of the postulate of "lifelong education" in the field of professional education in Russia, reveals its importance for the development of personality of a future specialist. A brief overview and the results of the implementation of this principle in the process of professional training of students of Shadrinsk State Pedagogical University, the Branch of the Industrial University of Tyumen, Bashkir State Pedagogical University are presented