The Department of Russian Language and Applied Linguistics offers the following educational programs:

• Applied Linguistics (master's degree)
• Russian Language (master's degree)
• Applied Linguistics: Russian Language and Literature (bachelor's degree)
• Applied Linguistics: Russian Language (bachelor's degree)
• Russian Language and Literature (specialist degree)
• Russian Language and Literature, Applied Linguistics (specialist degree)

Fields of research:

• Computational linguistics
• Corpus linguistics
• Linguography
• Clinical linguistics and neurolinguistics
• Historical lexicology and grammar
• Digital Humanities
• Paleoslavic Studies
• Cognitive linguistics
• Traditional linguistics (basic units and categories of phonetics, vocabulary, word formation, morphology and syntax)
• Communicative linguistics and psycholinguistics
• Linguistic stylistics, semantic, syntactic and pragmatic organization of the text
• Methodology of teaching Russian language

The Department of Russian Language and Applied Linguistics provides postgraduate education:

10.02.01 – Russian language

10.02.20 – Comparative-historical, typological and comparative linguistics.