"The article analyses the educational communities as a Central element of the education system; characterized by nonlinear trajectories of development, formed under the conditions of the Russian megacity. It shows his features influencing the formation of non-linear strategies and their corresponding trajectories for the development of educational communities and the reasons of occurrence of these pathways in conditions of social uncertainty. Draws attention to such characteristics of nonlinear educational trajectories of communities, how their surprise, the paradox, the latency, the tension, property of probability, "wrong" question. The typology of nonlinear educational trajectories of communities formed under the influence of the metropolis."