The article analyzes educational communities as a central element of the education system, characterized by a nonlinear trajectories of development, formed in the conditions of the Russian megalopolis. Showing its features, influencing the formation of non-linear behavior strategies and the corresponding trajectories of the educational communities. The reasons of beginning of these trajectories in the c of social uncertainty are showing. Attention is paid to such characteristics of non-linear trajectories of educational communities, as they are unexpectedness, paradoxical, latency, intensity, probability, "irregularity" of temporitme. We present a typology of non-linear trajectories of educational communities, which is a consequence of influence to the megalopolis