Today, the Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication held the opening ceremony of a joint master's program “Education. Teaching Russian in secondary and higher education” with the Kokand State Pedagogical Institute. On behalf of it, a vice-rector for academic affairs of the KSPIN.M. Babayeva and a head of the department for the coordination of joint educational programs Sh.V. Karshieva participated in the event, as well as teachers and master degree students of KSPI. IPIC has been represented by the director of the Institute R.R. Zamaletdinov, deputy director for international affairs and development E.V. Gafiyatova, dean of the Higher School of the Russian Language and Intercultural Communication, named after Baudouin de Courtenay, R.F. Mukhametshina, head of the department of the Russian language and methods of its teaching Yusupova Z.F., acting head of the department of the Russian literature and methods of its teaching Afanasiev A.S.

Institute of Philology and Intercultural communication is focused on the mutual exchange of experience and fruitful cooperation. At the moment, we are successfully collaborating with the universities of the Republic of Uzbekistan, such as Bukhara State University, Fergana State University.

Each master's opened program is implemented with up-to-date, practice-oriented disciplines in order to train specialists who are able to realize their professional activities at a high level.

We sincerely wish the students of the new master's program success and we believe that this period of studying will be fruitful and beneficial for them!

Key words: KSPI, international activity of IPIC, cooperation