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Sociolinguistic studies, dedicated to the speech behavior of the migrants, held in 2010-2017, address the issues of strategy and conditions of preservation by the Moscow bilingual student of their self-identity (Mother-Tongue 2017). Data received by the way of questionnaire survey with alternative choice, as well as interview in the form of dialogue, demonstrate the trend to the oblivion of the mother-tongue by children in the course of their socialization and integration into the Russian society (the same 2017). Due to this fact, analysis of the texts, which are created in the frameworks of “Bilingua” Moscow City Open Contest of Children’s Creativity (contest of bilingual essays written in the Russian and ethnic language of the bilingual person), disclosing value systems and assessments of children from the bilingual families. Genre specificity of the essays and problematics of the contest (history of family, fate of the mother-tongue, my motherland) and paradoxical wordings of the topics motivate the authors to maximally explicit presentation of their position.