To substantiate the choice of a new object of study in education for sustainable development at the stage of general and professional education, which would reflect the peculiarities of the national mentality of Russians, be personally significant in the daily life of a young people and recognisable in any academic subject.The article describes a cross‐curricular content line of environmental education for sustainable development developed for the general and professional education system, which is implemented through all subjects and extracurricular activities. At its basis – the enlarged didactic unit – an anthropoecological system of organization of human life reflecting the unity of its natural and social origin, the basis of cultural and ecological ancestry of the nation’s people, established since the emergence of the ancestral structure of society. The anthropogenic ecosystem “Nature‐ Family‐Homeland” combines in itself spiritual and material origin, actualises ethno‐cultural «genes» of memory relations to the environment of different generations and carries in itself archetypal codes of biosphere compatible behavior. Pedagogical ways of embedding the “Nature‐Family‐ Homeland” augmented didactic unit into the subject content have been developed. These are methods of pedagogical axiomatization, metaphorisation and visualization using of infographics and ICT.The authors assert the expediency of choosing the “Nature‐Family‐Homeland” anthropoecosystem based on the cultural concepts of the Russian language, the traditional national values of Russians and recognisable visual images.