A textbook of the Russian language which traditionally has been regarded as a vehicle carrying the contents of education and performed informational, motivational, systematizing, organizing, developing and some other functions, is changing when it was included in the digital educational space. The modern theory of Russian language textbook researches the following issues as the functions, contents, structure of a textbook in the changed educational space; the use of various multimedia resources, information and communication technologies is the most remarkable feature. The problem of correlation of traditional textbook and the electronic format textbook is quite frequently discussed. The question of self-sufficiency e-textbook that may become the main mean of education and the basic tool of information-educational and communicative environment modeling is staying controversial.

The purpose of the study is to identify aspects of structuring the educational content of a contemporary textbook on the Russian language in the age of the digital educational space.

The principal methods of this study are content analysis, systematization of the results of pedagogical and methodological academic studies with the aim to identify the degree of awareness about the problem under review; generalization of the author’s experience in handling standardization of the subject content of the school course in the native Russian language; reflections on the author’s own research and teaching practice.