Introduction. The article is devoted to the consideration of methods of countering the falsification of history in the process of teaching at a pedagogical university. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that at a pedagogical university the emphasis is made on the learning process and the training of future teachers of history and social studies. In recent decades, the falsification of history has become not only the initiative of individual unscrupulous researchers, but also a purposeful policy of the states unfriendly to Russia.