Abstract: The research subject is the formation of professional communicative competence of cadets of a ministerial institution in the process of self-education. The author studies the experience of Perm Institute of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia and considers aspects of the topic as the ways of formation of communicative competence of cadets in the process of self-education and the forms of independent work of cadets (classroom work, out-of-class work and self-initiated work). Special attention is given to pedagogical support of independent work of cadets. The author offers organizing method classes, which would include general psychological and methodological recommendations about organization of independent work in each discipline. The author uses such methods as analysis and generalization of pedagogical and methodological literature on the problem under study; classification; questioning; generalization of pedagogical experience. The author formulates the ways to form professional communicative competence of cadets in the process of self-education, based on the experience of Perm Institute of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation. A special author’s contribution to the study of this topic is the proposal to form professional communicative competence not only within the discipline “The Russian language and speech culture”, but to include field-specific communicative blocks in general professional disciplines and professional disciplines, in the programs of practical classes within the principal educational program, and research activity. The author proves that effective self-education, research activity, meetings with practitioners and an hour of reading will promote the formation of professional communicative competence of cadets of ministerial institutes.