AbstractThe aim of the research is to study and diagnose Russian higher educational institution students’ ecological competency formation with all its components aggregated. On the basis of the received results, recommendations of special psychological and pedagogical work organization to increase the level of students’ ecological competence are given. 192 students of Kazan (Volga region) Federal University took part in the experiment. A battery of tests (questionnaire “Naturaphil” by V.A. Levin and S.D. Deryabo; E.A.Klimov's test “Preferable types of vocational activities”; verbal associative method “ESOP” by V.A.Yasvin and S.D. Deryabo) was used to collect information.