Abstract
<jats:p>This article analyzes the conceptual challenges of theoretically understanding spirituality as an element of Rus-sian sociocultural identity. Based on the analysis of personological and cultural approaches, the concept of spirituality is explicated. Personological approaches connect spirituality with personal growth and humanistic orientations of a person. Cultural approaches emphasize spiritual sociocultural institutions and public spiritual culture in its various forms. The close connection of two sides of spirituality is substantiated: individual and so-cial. Russian spirituality is considered as a specific form of Russian spiritual culture. In the context of the do-mestic discourse of Russian spiritual culture, alternative solutions to three methodological problems are dis-cussed. The first concerns the relationship between the national and the universal in Russian spiritual culture. The second concerns the status of Orthodoxy in Russian spiritual culture. The third is the connection between Russian cultural and anthropological identity and the system of Russian spiritual values. The author analyzes the solutions to these problems presented by the classics of Russian thought V.S. Solovyov, F.M. Dostoevsky, N.A. Berdyaev, N.O. Lossky, I.A. Ilyin, as well as modern Russian researchers. The authors emphasize the hu-manistic essence of Russian spirituality.</jats:p>