On November, 15 lecturers of Mogilev State A. Kuleshov University took part in the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Socio-cultural Practices of Preschool Childhood”, which was held on the basis of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education “Volgograd State Social and Pedagogical University”. The conference was attended by scientists and practitioners working in the system of preschool education from the Russian Federation, the Republic of Belarus, the People's Republic of China, the Republic of Uzbekistan and Nigeria. I. A. Komarova, Dean of the Faculty of Pedagogics and Psychology of Childhood, and O. O. Prokofieva, Head of the Department of Childhood and Family, gave a welcoming speech and presented their reports at the plenary session. As part of the reports presented, scientific problems of sociocultural personality development, actual problems of upbringing and development of children of early and preschool age in socio-cultural educational environment, effective socio-cultural practices of preschool childhood were discussed. In the course of the conference, directions for further cooperation between our universities were outlined.