"Nurturing a love for one's native land, native culture, native village or city, native speech is a task of paramount importance, and there is no need to prove it. But how to bring up this love?" D.S. Likhachev. Fostering patriotism in adolescents is one of the most urgent tasks of the school. The purpose of this work: the argumentation of pedagogical conditions of increasing the effectiveness of the process of educating patriotism of school students by means of local history. The method of analysis of scientific literature, documents, pedagogical experience was used. The book identifies the main scientific and pedagogical approaches to the organization and content of local history as a means of forming patriotism."Nurturing a love for one's native land, native culture, native village or city, native speech is a task of paramount importance, and there is no need to prove it. But how to bring up this love?" D.S. Likhachev. Fostering patriotism in adolescents is one of the most urgent tasks of the school. The purpose of this work: the argumentation of pedagogical conditions of increasing the effectiveness of the process of educating patriotism of school students by means of local history. The method of analysis of scientific literature, documents, pedagogical experience was used. The book identifies the main scientific and pedagogical approaches to the organization and content of local history as a means of forming patriotism.