- Dr. Elena Dzyuba, Doctor of Philology, Professor of the Department of Russian and Foreign Philology;

- Dr. Yulia Marinina, Ph.D. in Philology, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Russian and Foreign Philology;

  • professor of the following disciplines: "Masterpieces of world literature", "Expressive reading", "Methods of scientific research" in a foreign audience of students of Minin University.
  • head of Bachelors’ Graduation works in the field of Russian as a foreign language and Masters’ theses in the field of Teaching Russian as a foreign language of foreign students»;
  • developer and professor of international educational projects of Minin University - "Faces of the Russian Diaspora: Faces, Fates, Books" (Summer School for students, master students, and postgraduate students from Russia and Poland, 2019); "In Search of Unraveling the National Russian Code: Educational Routes" (2020); "Mobile University of Education in Russian (Bachelor's, Master's, Postgraduate Support)" (since 2021); "Philological Marathon" (2022), "Philological Class" (2023);
  • participant in conferences, author of publications on the problems of teaching Russian as a foreign language and philological disciplines for foreign audience.

- Dr. Tatyana Sheveleva, Ph.D. in Philology, Head of the Department of Russian as a Foreign Language;

  • head of the educational Bachelor’s degree program "Russian as a foreign language" and Master’s degree program "Russian as a foreign language in the digital environment";
  • supervisor of Bachelor’s degree theses in the fields of Russian as a foreign language, Russian language and literature and Master’s degree theses in the fields of teaching Russian as a foreign language, Russian as a foreign language in the digital environment.
  • professor of the following disciplines: "Practical Course of the Russian Language", "Workshop on Preparation for the International Exam", "Methodology of Scientific Research", "Russian Regional Studies", "History of Foreign Literature".

Research interests: Russian as a foreign language in the online environment, digital linguodidactics, audio and video materials in learning Russian as a foreign language, intercultural communication, linguocountry studies.

 

- Dr. Anna Latukhina, Ph.D. in Philology, Associate professor of Russian and Foreign Philology;

  • specialist in the field of methods of teaching Russian as a foreign language
  • thesis adviser of final qualification papers of bachelor’s degree students majoring "Russian as a foreign language" and master's degree students majoring "Teaching Russian as a foreign language";
  • professor of retraining programs and head of master-classes on methods of teaching Russian as a foreign language at universities of the Republic of Uzbekistan (Bukhara), the Republic of Kyrgyzstan (Batken), advanced training courses for teachers of Russian as a foreign language in the Republic of Poland (Lublin).

Research interests: theory and practice of text analysis in Russian as a foreign language classes, design of educational programs, use of information technologies in teaching Russian as a foreign language.

- Dr. Natalya Petrova, Doctor of Philology, Professor of the Department of Russian Language and Speech Culture;

  • thesis adviser of final qualifying papers of undergraduate students majoring in “Russian Language and Literature” and graduate students majoring in “Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language”; thesis adviser of final qualifying papers of postgraduate/doctoral students (“Linguistics”).

Research interests: communicative-pragmatic functions of grammatical forms in the text, transitional and syncretic phenomena in the morphology of the Russian language, communicative strategies and tactics in media texts.

- Dr. Galina Samoilova, Ph.D. in Philology, Professor of the Department of Russian Language and Speech Culture;

  • specialist in the field of theory and history of language, thesis adviser of foreign students’ final qualifying works and master's theses of students studying the major "Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language".

Research interests: sociolinguistics, Old Church Slavonic, history of the Russian language, teaching Russian as a foreign language. Participant of conferences, author of publications on the topic of teaching Russian as a foreign language, including those indexed in the Scopus and WoS databases.

- Dr. Anna Komyshkova, Ph.D. in Philology, Associate Professor of the Department of Russian Language and Speech Culture;

  • professor of the following disciplines: "Russian language and culture of speech", "Linguistics of the text", "History of the Russian literary language" at Minin University. Taught such disciplines as "Business Russian language", "Philological analysis of the text" for foreign students of Minin University (China, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan). Supervisor of final qualifying works of foreign students and master's theses of students studying at "Teaching Russian as a foreign language" program;
  • participant in the Academic Mobility Program "Erasmus+" (Vilnius University, Lithuania, 2017);
  • developer and professor of international educational projects of Minin University "Bridge over the Volga" (Summer School of Russian as a Foreign Language, 2017); "In Search of Unraveling the National Russian Code: Educational Routes" (2020); "Mobile University of Education in Russian (Bachelor's, Master's, Postgraduate Support)" (since 2021); "Philological Marathon" (2022), "Philological Class" (2023);
  • participant in conferences, author of publications on the problems of teaching Russian as a foreign language and philological disciplines for foreign students.

- Dr. Marina Aksenova, PhD in Philology, Associate Professor of the Department of Foreign Language Professional Communication;

- Dr. Natalya Ilchenko, Doctor of Philology, Professor of the Department of Russian and Foreign Philology.