Аннотация:In modern education, the status of the German language is reduced. In the Pskov region, English is gradually becoming the only foreign language in many schools. The status of the German language in Pskov education is also unstable. However, the need for German is great. In the documents on the modernization of the Russian Federation education, the teaching of foreign languages occupies a priority position. Language education policy today is a mechanism for the correction and modernization of language behavior in a multi-ethnic society. Introduction of a second foreign language, interest in the German language Olympiads, trade and economic ties with Germany, programs to promote the study of the German language by the Institute. Goethe, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the DAAD organization, and others will preserve Germanism in Russia.