On March 24–25, Voronezh State University hosted the All-Russian Scientific Conference “Existing problems and tasks of modern Russian studies: XL Raspopov Readings. 50 linguists from Moscow and St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad and Chelyabinsk, Petrozavodsk and Belgorod, Voronezh and other cities participated in the conference.
The conference was opened by VSU Vice-Rector for Research, Innovations, and Digitising, who noted that holding a large-scale spring conference on the Russian language at our university has become a good tradition:
“This year, which has been declared the Year of Teachers and Mentors in Russia, and the Year of the Russian Language as a Language of Interethnic Communication in the CIS, the relevance of such a scientific forum is beyond doubt,” emphasized Oleg Aleksandrovich.
The reports of the conference participants were devoted to the problems of Russian language policy, the urgent tasks of Russian lexicography, changes in the vocabulary and phraseology of the Russian language, the study of topical issues of modern grammar, the linguistic analysis of texts of different styles and genres, the methods of teaching the Russian language at schools and universities. In a number of speeches, special attention was paid to the scientific heritage of outstanding Russian linguists, professors and long-term heads of the Russian Language Department of Voronezh State University, Igor Pavlovich Raspopov (1925–1982) and Anatoly Mikhailovich Lomov (1935–2018).
Within the framework of the Raspopov Readings, a round table was held for school teachers "Existing problems of teaching the Russian language at school", where a recently published textbook by the Dean of the Faculty of Philology of Voronezh State University Zhanna Gracheva and Associate Professor of the Department of the Russian Language Elena Sidorova "Modern Russian for a modern school" was presented.
