[The social health in the structure of civil potential of the student youth].

The article considers issue of increased attention of society and the state to social health of the youth. The various aspects of social health development and its influence on processes of formation of young person's personality and its civic becoming are examined. The threats to national security related to value orientations and physical and mental health of the youth, actualize research targeted to investigating problems of interdependence of social health and development of civic potential of the youth. The results of theoretical and empirical study of civic potential of students are presented. The model of development of civic potential of students is developed. The integration of social health with all components of the model is demonstrated. The necessity of system of social support of development of social health of students in educational space of University is substantiated. The empirical part of the study included results of sociological survey carried out on the basis of The G. V. Plekhanov Russian Economic University in September-October 2024 (n= 812). The original survey toolkit contained questions reflecting indicators of cognitive, axiological, motivational and praxiological components of civic potential model and social demographic block as well. It is established that social health, permeating all components of model of youth civic potential, affects its effective development. As a result of theoretical and empirical research, original model of implementation of civic potential of the youth in the educational space of University was developed. The specificity of social health in development of civic potential of students was defined.