A brief history

The Faculty of Humanities of KRSU was founded in 1995 in connection with the republic’s needs for highly qualified personnel in humanitarian areas. From the day of its founding until November 25, 2009, the faculty was headed by a well-known linguist in the CIS, Doctor of Philology, Professor Abdykadyr Orusbaevich Orusbaev.

Teaching staff

A high level of training is provided by 127 full-time teachers, including 18 doctors of science and 55 candidates of science.  Leading scientists and teachers of the Kyrgyz Republic teach at the faculty. Among them are laureates of State Prizes of the Kyrgyz Republic, honored educators and scientists of the Kyrgyz Republic.

International cooperation

The faculty has established contractual relations with leading international universities:

• Moscow State University named after. M.V. Lomonosov,
• Peoples' Friendship University of Russia,
• Moscow State Linguistic University,
• State Institute of Russian Language named after. A.S. Pushkin,
• St. Petersburg State University,
• Psychological Institute of the Russian Academy of Education (g. Moscow), 
• Tambov State University named after. G. Derzhavina,
• Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University,
• Omsk State Pedagogical University,
• Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
• Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences (g. St. Petersburg),
• Arctic State Institute of Arts and Culture (Republic of Sakha, city. Yakutsk),
• Institute named after. Goethe (Munich, Germany),
•  Urumqi Institute of Education (PRC), 
• Lanzhou University (PRC),
• Xinjiang University (PRC),
• Institute «WAITT» of the US National Geographic Society
• Center for National Problems of the Federal Institute for Educational Development (Moscow),
• Center for Humanitarian and Business Cooperation with Compatriots Abroad (G. Moscow), 
• Presidium of the Russian Philosophical Society,
• Moscow Foundation for International Cooperation named after. Yu. Dolgoruky, 
• Foundation named after R. Bosch at the University of Hohenheim (g. Stuttgard, Germany),
• Confederation of Underwater Activities of Russia (g. Moscow),
• Russian State Humanitarian University (g. Moscow),
• Siberian Federal University (g. Novosibirsk).

Famous CIS scientists gave lectures at the faculty: academicians V.G. Kostomarov, V.M. Masson, Professor V.Ya. Laudis, E.G. Eidemiller, Yu.N. Chumakov, V.A. Maslova, L.A. Araeva, A.N. Tikhonov, S.N. Kozlova, M.N. Kuzmin, A.N. Varlamov, G.A. Rudov, Yu.N. Karaulov, S.B. Malykh, R.G. Apresyan, T.G. Lyashkevich, M.A. Krongauz, E.V. Koltakova, N.G. Bragin.

In 2009, an Agreement was concluded between the consortium participants to create the Network University of the Commonwealth of Independent States on the joint training of masters in the field «Philology» (Russian language and literature).