Hunting as a Socio-Cultural Value

The article reveals the socio-cultural meanings and values of hunting, reflecting thevalue system of society in different historical periods. It is concluded that hunting represents the multifaceted experience of human interaction with the world of wildlife and society. In different periods of the existence of society, hunting was a source of satisfying human everyday needs; a school for training warriors; a source of new knowledge about the world and inspiration; a form of spending leisure time for representatives of the nobility and city dwellers; a way of studying the way of life of ordinary people, natural resources; was assessed as a tribute to the tradition of the outgoing noble culture and as a national cultural code, including the basic values of Russian life: freedom, asense of universal equality and national unity, deep knowledge and understanding of nature, its integrity and beauty. At the beginning of the 20th century, hunting becomes an income-generating profession.