The urgency of the stated in the article issue is caused by the necessity to solve the problems of education and way of life of orphans and children without parental care, the severity of which increases not only because of the continuous growth of the number of children coming into care of the state, but also the inefficient functioning of the existing state orphanage children education system. The aim of the research is scientific and theoretical development of pedagogical conditions of successful socialization of orphans in children's villages of family type and experimental study of their effectiveness. Theoretical and methodological basis of the research is the concept of social development and individual activity determinism, pedagogical and psychological theories on the human nature and socialization, its diagnosis, correctional and development activities concepts. The article contains the results of the socio-psycho-pedagogical diagnostics of socialization of teenage inmates of family type children's village; the authors describe the concept, certain principles and make a summary of educating principle for this category of children. The results are explained in terms of socialization: axiological, behavioral and communicative, emotional and volitional and personal self-assessment. The study does not cover the full problem of the children's village activities, but it can serve as a basis for the development of methodological approaches in solving for a number of practical problems of social adaptation of teenage children, and need to be supplemented by experts in fields of psychology, pedagogy, etc.