In this article we propose a model of realization of a regional component in the educational institutions of the Novosibirsk region. This material will be interesting and useful to teachers of geography, heads of methodological associations of teachers of geography, vice-principals of academic affairs, principals, that all those who are involved in the formation of the curriculum of the educational organization.

Keywords: regional component, geography, regional ethnography, patriotism, national identity, geographical thinking, socialization, the Federal State Educational Standard of basic general education.