Yu.N.Borisov, Head of Department of Russian literature and folklore, offers a short outline of the Department history, showing close links between rich scholarly tradition of the past and current research.
The article covers stages of development of the Department of Russian Language and Speech Communication. The life of language in human communication formed the basis for Russian language pedagogy, research of the Russian language and educational work of the department. The results of research and staff training, of cooperation with colleagues within Russia are presented.
The article presents the activity of A.M. Louk’yanenko (1879 – 1974), the Organizer of the Philology Department which had been set up in 1941 at Saratov University, and the first head of the Slavic-Russian Language Department of Saratov University.
В предлагаемой статье дан краткий очерк изучения отечественной литературы ХХ века в Саратовском университете в единстве истории страны, истории литературы и истории изучавшей эту литературу кафедры.
