Give me a magazine – hooray for the game! (description of the magazines "Grotexny Mnogopotam" and "TraNvay 13", 1986–1998, executive editor M.V. Panov)

The article describes the content and the poetics of the magazines “Grotexny Mnogopotam”, “TraNvay 13”. The “poetic shift” is a dominant technique in the home magazines edited by M.V. Panov. In the creating process of the magazines the poetic shift technique extends to non-verbal reality and combines word, image, and game.

The term «obucheniye» in modern Russian pedagogical dictionaries and textbooks

This article deals with the semantics of the term «obucheniye» in modern Russian pedagogical literature. The research findings based on analysis of pedagogical textbooks and dictionaries indicate that there is no clear consensus regarding the term «obucheniye» in Russian pedagogics. Many distinguished scholars of modern pedagogy give different definitions of the term «obucheniye», but at the same time, they use the term mainly in traditional meaning as the activity of a teacher.

“Physiological” Essays by Faddei Bulgarin and Russian Natural School

The question of Bulgarinʼs contribution to the development of the genre of “physiological” essays has not been practically studied yet. To a large extent this is due to an acute conflict between Bulgarin and Russian Natural School, which regarded this genre as one of its basics. The article attempts to examine the specifics of Bulgarin’s work in the context of the sketches of 1840s (in particular, the works from the collection “Physiology of St. Petersburg”), as well as in the context of the newspaper and magazine polemics of that time.

Literary trajectories: The scientific fate of Elena Vladimirovna Dushechkina

The article deals with the scientific fate of Elena Vladimirovna Dushechkina, the professor of St. Petersburg University. Using the metaphor of movement and the concept of trajectory the author shows that, being formed at the University of Tartu as a researcher of ancient literature, E.V. Dushechkina, follows this trajectory and expands the range of studied texts to poetry and prose of classical Russian literature, of proper names in literature and the reality of children's literature and pioneer songs, and leaves us with wonderful books and articles which can serve as a model for studies of Russian literature.

Foreign highly qualified specialists as a particular contingent of students studying Russian as a foreign language

The article is devoted to the description of foreign highly qualified specialists living and working in Russia and studying Russian language. This type of contingent is relatively new for the methodology of teaching Russian as a foreign language and has not been studied sufficiently yet. The article gives main characteristics of this group of people, their motives and goals in learning Russian, that were identified by questioning. The requests from this contingent of students (which are quite important for the methodology of teaching Russian as a foreign language) are simultaneously the fastest possible way of learning Russian within a limited range of topics, adaptation to the Russian linguocultural environment, and the development of a system focused on highly qualified specialists.

The concept «little man» in the present Russian cinema discourse

The article deals with the peculiarities of the existence of the concept «little man», «a person of no importance» in modern Russian cultural space. The author selects two opposite tendencies in understanding the concept that have been outlined in modern art. One of the tendencies shows that the comprehension of the concept in literature, journalism is transferred to the psychological system of co-ordinates that is connected with leveling and oversimplifying national humanistic perception of concept. The other tendency shows that renascence of the concept has emerged in word usage that was set by Russian classic literature in the cinema discourse. This tendency is illustrated by examining A. Zvyagintsev’s films.

In memory of Yuri Bondarev: on the question about writer’s creative reputation

The article examines the evolution of the creative reputation of Yuri V. Bondarev, a frontline writer, one of the “lieutenant prose” founders, the creator of deep philosophical novels about history and modernity. The factors influencing the writer’s reputation, such as biography, literary texts (aesthetic merits and ideological fullness), relations with the authorities, creative and everyday behaviour, the evolution of creative and ideological views are analysed. A brief analysis of the writer’s creative path is offered.

International student science in RTU MIREA

The article tells about the annual scientific and technical conference of students and postgraduates of Technological University, held from May 25 to 30, where the students of the Institute of International Education presented their scientific reports for the first time within the framework of the conference.

Remembering scientist and teacher Galina Aleksandrovna Zolotova

G.A. Zolotova (1924–2020) passed away. She was an outstanding linguist and specialist in the field of Russian grammar and textual analysis, Dr. Hab. in Philology, Full Professor and chief researcher of Vinogradov Institute of Russian language RAS until 2013, who worked for more than 35 years in the department of Russian at the Faculty of Philology.

On the scientific heritage of Sergei Ivanovich Kormilov

The article defines the main blocks of the scientific heritage of Sergei Ivanovich Kormilov. His contribution to the field of theory and history of literature and literary criticism is presented. Achievements in the theory of verse are described. Methodological principles in all studied areas of philological science are indicated. The research pathos of the scientist is noted, expressed in the realized desire to contribute to the solution of the problem of synthesis in literary criticism. Based on the analysis of Kormilov’s works, his personality of a scientist and a citizen is reconstructed.