The title of "Honored Teacher of the Russian Federation" is awarded to highly professional teachers and teachers of general education schools, colleges, lyceums, gymnasiums, primary education institutions and institutes for the training and advanced training of educators for personal merits:
in pedagogical activities that ensure that students and pupils receive a high-quality general education;
in identifying and developing the individual abilities of students and pupils, revealing their scientific and creative potential;
in the preparation of winners of regional, all-Russian and international olympiads;
in the scientific, methodological and methodological improvement of the educational process and educational standards, in the creation of innovative teaching aids, programs and author's methods;
in the training and retraining of qualified teaching staff.