Modern society especially needs specialists capable of making non-standard decisions, active participation in innovation processes, ready to competently solve research problems. A young specialist should be capable of systematic action in a professional situation, to analyse and design his/her activity, to act independently in conditions of uncertainty, to have a desire for self-improvement and strive for creative self-realisation. One of the most important requirements of the modern stage of development of university training is the development of student's research work.