In the article “Features of the professional training of cadets in a military university” have been examined. The article studies the process of pedagogical training of cadets of a military university, reveals the main stages of professionally-oriented training of cadets, and clarifies the conditions for organizing training of cadets in the conditions of modernization of higher military education in Kazakhstan. Actually, it is quite necessary to develop the policy of the reforms in the modern conditions. The creative model of the national higher education, the politics of military cooperation, the activity in all fields allow to fulfill mutual collaboration all the time. The design of the military education system is connected with the preparation of teachers of a military university for professional pedagogical activity. In many respects, the quality and level of readiness of military personnel that ensure the country’s military security, the prevention of wars and armed conflicts, as well as the construction of a professional army that meets the highest international standards depends on their successful activities. The process of preparation of the future officers has the special goal to give them wide experience in all spheres, the peculiarities of study and personal characteristics of the students are directed to the forming of the modern person with the necessary features in the professional field, with the help of pedagogical knowledge.