Welcome to Iranian Philology Department!

We work in two adjacent fields:

• Teaching basic and official Iranian languages for undergraduates (Persian/Farsi, Dari, Tajik, Pashto and Kurdish)
• Special courses for MA students and post-graduates in linguistics and/or literature

Our students learn to speak, write and translate texts in contemporary languages. They can add Ancient/Middle/Classical Persian and/or Avesta to their individual plans.Our students study 4 years and receive the diploma of Bachelor. Then they study 2 years more and become Masters of Science. After 3 years more of study our post-graduate students can get the degree of Ph.D. They carry out research in following areas:

• Contemporary Literature of Iran/Afghanistan/Tajikistan
• Difference and/or Similarity of Contemporary Persian, Tajik and Dari
• Experimental Study of Persian/Dari/Pashto/Tajik Phonetics
• Folklore of Iran/Afghanistan/Tajikistan
• Morphology of Modern Iranian Languages
• Historical Grammar and Diachronic Study of Iranian Languages
• History of Persian/Afghani (Pashto)/Tajik Literature
• History of Persian Language
• Lexicology of Persian/Dari/Pashto
• Multimedia in Foreign Languages Teaching
• Pahlavi (Middle Persian) Literature
• Persian Phraseology
• Poetry of Hafiz
• Poetry of Saadi
• Poetry and philosophy of Omar Khayam
• Poetry ofFirdousi
• Modern Persian Poetry
• Contemporary Culture and Languages of Iran and Afghanistan
• Firdowsi’s Shahname
• Theoretical Problems of Literature in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan

Most of the lectures are held in the Cabinet of Iranian Culture, where our students have Persian and Pashto books at their disposal. The Cabinet is equipped with a satellite TV tuner to watch live Jam-e Jam broadcastings. Video player is used to teach colloquial Persian as it is spoken by the actors. In the same Cabinet we teach to use multilingual software to type mixed Russian-Persian-Pashto-Latin texts on computers. During the lessons we listen to the latest news in Persian through Internet.

Our professors of Persian Language are: Vladimir Ivanov, Tatyana Markina., Olga Sorokina, Eugene Mickerov, Yuri Rubinchik.

Our professors of Dari are: Boris Ostrovsky, Marina Diaz-Gonzales, Nadezhda Zaozerskaya.

Our professors of Pashto are: Konstantin Lebedev, Irina Novgorodova.

Our professors of Persian Literature are: Marina Reysner, Anna Ardashnikova.