Our history and traditions

The Faculty of Philology, Moscow Lomonosov State University, has earned the reputation of the leading expert on teaching Russian as a foreign language due to its long-term activity in the field. This direction of studies has been developing since 1947 not only to establish strong academic traditions, but also to work out a truly reliable and effective methodology. Currently, there are 4 departments specialising in the field – the Department of Russian Language for Foreign Students at the Faculty of Philology, the Department of Russian for Foreign Students in the Humanities, the Department of Russian for Foreign Students in the Natural Sciences, the Department of Didactic Linguistics and Theory of Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language at the Faculty of Philology and 2 administrative units: the International Office at the Faculty of Philology and the International Summer School (the International Russian Language Courses at the Faculty of Philology, MSU).