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The paper is devoted to the theoretical analysis of a phenomenon of youth political consciousness from the political psychology perspective. In accordance with the chosen approach we define a social group "youth" as generational commonness and define the main characteristics of such base components of political consciousness, as political representations and values. We present the political-psychological analysis of the formation of the political consciousness of youth in the political socialization process and consider the influence of the socialization institutes and agents on the evolution of political representations, attitudes and values. Besides the author focuses on the forms of the social activity of young Russians.