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Abstract: The choice of the topic of the article is due to the importance of the study of mentality in General and the professional mentality of the teacher in particular. The article reveals the features of professional mentality of the Russian teacher with the help of the structural-functional analysis of professional mentality of the teacher and specific characteristics of the Russian national character. There are many views on the essence of the concept «professional mentality of the teacher». Therefore, the author presents the results of a content analysis of the papers devoted to the study of the concepts of «mentality» and «professional mentality». This analysis allowed the author to identify the most common characteristics of professional mentality and its structural components. As a result, it was revealed that professional mentality actually means the dynamic substructure of mentality, which is determined by the characteristics of individual mental experience and is reflected in the professional activity of a personality or a social group. Analysis of the studies of the Russian national character reveals its inherent values and attributes. These values and attributes are correlated with the professional mentality of the teacher. This, in its turn, allows presenting the most characteristic peculiarities of the professional mentality of the Russian teacher (in the framework of the axiological, emotional, cognitive components and the image of the «Self-professional»). In conclusion, the author formulates the general ideas about the necessity and possibility of their use in the professional training of the teacher.