This article examines the processes of linguistic normalization in Ukrainian during the period of Ukrainization in the 1920s and their reflection in the Ukrainian-language press of Kuban (RSFSR). The analysis focuses on the use of noun standards in issue No. 4–5 of the pedagogical journal "Novym shlyakhom" (1928), published in Krasnodar between 1927 and 1930 as the organ of the Central Council of National Minorities of the People’s Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR. The study demonstrates that the editorial board was well-informed about the discussions on Ukrainian orthographic norms that were taking place in the Ukrainian SSR under the supervision of the Orthographic Commission of the People’s Commissariat of Education of the Ukrainian SSR. Special attention is paid to grammatical markers in the sections "Gender of Nouns", "Genitive Singular of Nouns", "Locative Singular of Nouns", and "Genitive Plural of Nouns". The findings show that noun inflection largely conformed to the standards codified in the "Ukrainian Orthography" of 1928. Interference in noun inflection proved to be minimal, while the expanded application of certain grammatical norms indicates a conscious strategy of asserting Ukrainian linguistic identity in the predominantly Russian-speaking environment of Kuban. The article also identifies dialectal features associated with the Kuban vernacular and considers the reasons for their occurrence in the pedagogical discourse. In addition, biographical traces of some contributors to the journal are explored. The study concludes that communication between Ukrainization activists in the RSFSR and their colleagues in the Ukrainian SSR was limited. Promising directions for further research include: word-formation analysis of neologisms and historicisms of the Ukrainization period in Kuban; orthographic analysis of texts; conceptual and semantic study of the lexical corpus; and sociolinguistic analysis of the journal’s discourse.