Russian language teachers and administration

Ruslanguage teachers

A permanent staff of young and talented teachers and the excellent teaching quality is what favorably distinguishes Ruslanguage School.

All the teachers of the Ruslanguage School have an extensive experience in teaching the Russian language to foreigners. They teach in the department of the Russian language of the Lomonosov Moscow State University and at the Pushkin Institute of the Russian Language and participate regularly in numerous international scientific conferences. Their names appear on the covers of textbooks and manuals of Russian language for foreigners.

The teachers of the Ruslanguage School create the ideal learning experience for students to develop their full potential.


Artur Baishev

Director of the school


Founder of Ruslanguage school in 1991.
Teacher of the Russian language for foreigners

Asya Kudryavtseva

Teacher


Specialist in communicative approach, certified tester of TORFL, author of publications on teaching Russian as a foreign language Teacher
Graduate of the Far Eastern Federal University, PhD in Philology, highly qualified teacher of Russian as a foreign language.

Specialist in communicative approach, certified tester of TORFL, author of publications on teaching Russian as a foreign language.

Language of teaching – Russian.

Speaks English.

Svetlana Naumova

Teacher


Major in Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language.

Over 12 years of experience in teaching Russian to foreign students. Among other, worked in such organizations as the UN, OSCE, the Red Cross, Médecins sans frontières.

Highly flexible to students’ personal needs in studying Russian.

Scientific research on Russian as a Foreign Language in progress.

Successfully prepared students to the Test of Russian as a Foreign Language and other examinations.

Students of Svetlana have won prizes at different Russian as a Foreign Language competitions and successfully passed proficiency tests at work.

Anna Shashkova

Teacher


Graduate of the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University (Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language). Specialist in lexicology and Russian literature.

Teaches Russian as a foreign language since 2009 Specializes in communicative approach.

Language of teaching – Russian. Also speaks English and Spanish.


Anna Popova

Teacher


Graduate of the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University (the Department of Didactic Linguistics and Theory of Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language).

Specialist in communicative approach. Has experience in teaching Russian to bilingual children.

Successfully prepared students to TORFL 1 – TORFL 2

Co-author of Russian language textbooks.

Certified TELC tester.

Dmitry Kryukov

Teacher


Graduated from the Philology department of the Moscow State University, majoring in Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language, and the postgraduate school of the Pushkin University of the Russian Language.

Since 1994, teaching Russian as a foreign language at the Philology department of the Moscow State University.

Research in semantics and lexics at the Russian Academy of Education.

Dmitry conducts a series of special courses in Russian literature for foreign graduate and postgraduate students and interns, specializing in the works of authors like Nicolai Gogol, Anton Tchekhov, Mikhail Bulgakov.

Irina Zakharenko

Teacher


Graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University. Since 1994 teaches Russian as a foreign language at the department of Russian for foreign students of the Moscow State University. Teaches at Ruslanguage School since its foundation. Also worked as a teacher at the State University of New York in Albany (Exchange Visitor Program, 1998) and State University of Ostrava in the Czech Republic (Business Russian, 2000). Since 2004 teacher at the department of international communication and discourse of the Moscow State University.

Co-authored several textbooks for foreign students (Мои друзья падежи. The Russian grammar in dialogues; Можно? Нельзя? Practical minimum for cultural adaptation in the Russian environment), designed typical tests of Business Russian and co-authored several linguocultural dictionaries (Russian Cultural Space; The Modern Russian Phrase Dictionary. The meaning. The usage. Culturological commentary).

Fluent in English.

Inessa Maevskaya

Teacher


Graduated from the Philology department of the Moscow State University, majoring in Russian Language and Literature with a minor in Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language.

Author of the adapted texts to several English books.

Got the top mark for all the four modules of Cambridge Teaching Knowledge Test.

Tries to create friendly and comfortable environment in class. Using the communicative approach in teaching Russian, places high emphasis on the grammar part as well which makes the learning process more efficient and gives the students a better understanding of the Russian language system, enabling them to use the language independently afterwards.

Fluent in the English and Spanish languages.


Irina Zezekalo

Teacher


Graduated from the Moscow State University. Major in Teaching the Russian Language and Culture.

Since 2003, a certified tester for the Test of Russian as a Foreign Language.

Extensive experience in teaching Russian as a foreign language to graduates and undergraduates of the humanities and social sciences departments. Taught Russian at a summer course to students from South Korea.

From 2004 to 2006, taught Russian and conducted seminars in Russian history and culture at the Department of the Russian language, Nanjing University (China).

Evgeniya Pleschunova

Teacher


Graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University. Major in Teaching the Russian language and culture.

Extensive experience of teaching Russian in Russia and abroad: the University of Matanzas (Cuba), Berufsakademie Gera (Germany), Magdeburg and Berlin. Former head of the English teachers section at the University of London. Researcher on applied methods of teaching Russian as a foreign language.

Author of several books, including a series of textbooks for beginners and Commenting fiction: exercises based on the texts from the Russian classic literature.

Study Russian in Moscow with us

The Ruslanguage team is dedicated to making the students’ Russian language study programs and stay in Moscow easy and enjoyable. The school’s office is always open for the students to guide them through every aspect of their stay, including academic matters, Russian visa support, accommodation in Moscow, social activities, and welfare.

The Ruslanguage team takes care of any questions that may appear from the moment of enrollment in the course till the end of the Russian language program. All the administration members understand that living in a foreign city may be as challenging as learning a foreign language. They are always ready to provide the necessary support for students to feel at ease and concentrate on their studies of Russian as well as experience the best of Moscow.