eng Oriental Scientific Publishing Company Biosciences Biotechnology Research Asia 0973-1245 2015-04-28 12 1 475 480 5791 article Natalia Yuryevna Sinyagina 1 Tatiana Yuryevna Bogacheva 2 Doctor of Psychology, the Director of The Federal Child Development and Prevention Research Centre(Research Centre for child-rearing problems, the formation of a healthy lifestyle, prevention of drug addiction, and the socio-pedagogical support of children and youth), 127055, Moscow, Tihvinskaya, 39, p. 25, Moscow Candidate of Psychological Sciences, Senior Research Scientist at the Federal Child Development Research Centre (Research Centre for child-rearing problems, the formation of a Healthy lifestyle, prevention of drug addiction, and the socio-pedagogical support of children and youth),127055, Moscow, Tihvinskaya, 39, p. 25.Moscow. The presented article deals with the issues of students’ adaptation in a polycultural environment. It contains the data of the study of interpersonal interaction in a situation when students find themselves in a new socio-cultural environment on the example of young students from Armenia, Russia, and the United States. It discusses the symptoms, stages, and positive effects of a culture shock, substantiates the necessity of psychological efforts on adaptation of foreign students, describes the ways of such adaptation in a new cultural environment, factors influencing the expression of the culture shock and methods of its prevention, and substantiates the necessity of a polycultural dialog in solving the assigned tasks. https://www.biotech-asia.org/vol12no1/about-the-need-in-a-polycultural-dialogue/ Polycultural interaction; Intrapersonal conflict; Culture shock; adaptation; polycultural dialog