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Abstract: The article presents the results of the empirical research of specificity of empathy of Russian and foreign students and determines its relationship to the types of ethnic identity of the individual. It considers a professionally-oriented education environment, as it has a great potential for the purposeful formation of a person's preparation to conduct dialogue with multinational environment due to the presence of organized processes, training and development, and provides an environment for the design of psychological and pedagogical technologies of formation of empathy skills in terms of education environment. The article discovers and describes the similarities and differences in the prevalence of specific types of ethnic identity among Russian and foreign students and reveals their content features. The authors find out the possible connection of empathetic abilities of the individual with a specific type of identifying themselves with their ethnic group. The format of regression models show the specificity of the studied sample, in which the students who came to our country from other countries, show a variety of different objects to the perception of empathy in situations of interpersonal interaction. In conclusion, the article states the important role of empathy abilities of the person in the adaptation process for the integration of the human being into a new environment, and for reduction of social tensions in a multicultural dialogue.