The article is devoted to the problem of correlation between the specifics of civilizational development of the socio-cultural community and the methodology of scientific knowledge, which is formed and implemented in this community. The author suggests that the specificity of scientific knowledge in Russia was due to the naturalhistorical conditions of its civilizational development. Its values reflect the focus of national consciousness on the transformation of the spontaneous energy of unlimited space into a single integrity of the human universe. The author seeks to show that genuine scientific knowledge conceptually reproduces the civilizational vector of development of the socio-cultural community, thematizing its basic constants and value orientations.