About the department
The Department of Russian Language and Literature is one of the oldest and most prospective structural units of the Institute of Philology.
The department was one of the first established in 1944. In different years, the department was headed by well-known philologists in the republic: L.A. Fedulova, K.Sh. Kanafieva, Z.A. Akhmetov, H.U. Ishanov, D.Tursynov, N. Dzhuanyshbekov, G.N. Sadykov. From 1998 to 2004, the head of the department was Valentina Zhumagulova, an outstanding teacher and scientist.
Currently, the department is headed by Candidate of Philological Sciences Eleonora Mirzagaevna Khankishieva.
The Department consists of highly qualified specialists, philologists, who research the current problems of Russian language and literature.
Mission and International cooperation
Providing students with a sufficient level of knowledge, skills and abilities in the field of Russian language and literature, considering the direction of training, training in the application of the acquired knowledge in professional activities.
The faculty of the department is in close cooperation with colleagues from foreign universities: RUDN University (Russia), Leningrad State University named after A.S. Pushkin (Russia), University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn (Poland), Higher School of Foreign Languages in Svecz (Poland), Niide Omer Halisdemir University (Turkey).
The sphere of professional interests of teachers includes topical problems of modern Russian language, cultural linguistics, ethnolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, the history of Russian literature, problems of modern Russian and foreign literature, modern methods of literary analysis of a literary text, as well as mythopoetics, linguopoetics.
The department conducts research in the field of Russian linguistics, comparative typology, literary studies and sociolinguistics. So, under the guidance of Doctor of Philology, Professor, Academician of the International Academy of Sciences of Higher Education V.I. Zhumagulova members of the department took an active part in scientific fundamental and applied research, including: "Linguocultural interactions of Kazakh and Russian languages in the conditions of sovereign Kazakhstan" (2006-2008), "Optimization of educational and methodological support in Russian language and literature in higher education" (2006 -2008), "The Russian language as a translator of special terminology in the science of Kazakh literary language" (2009-2011), "Scientific and methodological foundations for the modernization of the content of philological education as a condition for the formation of a multicultural personality" (2012-2014), "Formation of linguistic competencies of pedagogical personnel in the context of the implementation of the policy of multilingualism in Kazakhstan"(2015-2017)," Mass media of Kazakhstan in the context of globalization and their impact on the modernization of public consciousness (linguistic aspect) "(2018-2020). Work has begun on a new project "Creating digital content for methodological support of Kazakh rural teachers of Russian language and literature in organizing the educational process in a distant format" (2021-2023) under the leadership of Doctor of Philology, Professor Zh.K. Kiynova.
Graduates can perform the following types of professional activities:
- educational (pedagogical) – teacher of Russian language and literature at secondary educational schools, secondary special educational institutions, vocational schools, as well as in educational institutions of other types and forms, at various training courses;
- experimental research–as a teacher-researcher, employee of various foundations and projects;
- organizational and managerial–as the head of various levels in state and non-state institutions and organizations;
- editorial – editor of the publishing house;
- announcer – as media workers.
