Abstract: This article review the conceptual structure of regional society and its connection with the university culture. It is determined that the participation of a university in the structure of modernization potential of regional society is important for the development of the regional social space. The article analyzes the model of formation of the university space as a universal structure that will be responsible for the development and modernization of a region. The authors examine the questions of emergence of the effective grounds and forms of realization of interaction between the university and regional society. The goal of the work consists in formulation of the concept of optimization of a regional university, as well as socio-philosophical analysis of the expected results from the perspective of their purposefulness. Methodology for this study is based on the generalization of scientific research works dedicated to the analysis of various models of regional university. The authors’ main contribution consists in combination of all analyzed elements into the unified structure by means of establishing a basic space (university) as the overall control subsystem for the elements of regional society. Without the developing regional culture, all achievements of a university such as trained specialists, technologies and innovations will bypass into the other developing cultural centers within the country or abroad. Therefore, a university faced the task of forming the bases of multifacetedness within the surrounding social space and regional culture through the educational and scientific activity.

Abstract: This article provides the search results of the value foundations of religions in their cultural manifestation within the social space of Chuvash Republic, as well as describes their qualitative characteristics. The authors present the results of philosophical analysis of the content, structure, and functional potential of the impact of invariant (or attributive) characteristics of value foundations of the religious outlook upon human consciousness. The article substantiates the principle of interaction between the scientific and religious outlook within the university social space, as well as provides the proof of possibility of their mutual influence without losing the value orientations aimed at construction of human and society. The author show the possibility of regulating relations of the two sociocultural institutions of the regions – religion and education through the social space of the flagship university. The article suggests a mechanism of conjunction and potential integration according to the purpose of building the scientific and religious outlook preserving the identity of each. Socio-philosophical analysis of characteristics of the religious values from the perspective of their compatibility and non-confrontational interaction allowed determining the attributive positions and value foundations for every religious culture. The authors established the hierarchical importance of he identified value foundations:
 


Private for separate religious organization;


For regional religious community;


For all regional religions communities as a whole.


 
The interrelation of various religious communities take place on the basis of the principle of systematicity, manifesting as the subsystems with own differences and functions cooperating within the framework of the more general subsystem of university culture.