Abstract: The study is aimed at emphasizing the importance of the selected topic as well as defining the criteria and indicators of democratic culture of a personality. The study is based on the results of a research done by a group of scholars from Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University. Teachers, parents and children from the schools of Russia and the CIS states participated in the survey conducted in the framework of the research. The results obtained allowed to identify the degree of democratic culture development and define the problems existing in the relation system of the educational process subjects. The research results also encouraged us to produce recommendations for nurturing democratic culture in schoolchildren.