Chronicle

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.

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V.V. Prozorov draws the portrait of the outstanding Russian scholar Alexandr Skaftymov, offers some reflections on Skaftymov’s original approach to the phenomenon of fiction, and characterizes the basic principles of Saratov philological school, founded by Skaftymov in the middle of the twentieth century.