The Department of Russian Language and Literature has been operating since the opening of the university. The activity of the department continues to this day. Russian language teachers improve their qualifications at quarterly methodological seminars held at the department. The teachers of the department, together with the students of the university, worked on the radio program "Russian Word" on the radio "Manas-FM", reflecting the culture and traditions of the Russian and Kyrgyz peoples (designed and written 40 radio programs in total).
Currently, the teachers of the department are preparing foreign students, future specialists in the field of Russian philology (department of Russian language and literature) and a simultaneous translator (Turkish-Russian program). Since the 2018 year, Kyrgyz students studying at the Department of Simultaneous Translation (Turkish-Russian program) have been studying at the Russian Language Department.