Studying the history of Russian at philological and non-philological faculties of pedagogical universities

The article is devoted to the issues of teaching the history of Russian at linguistic and non-linguistic departments of Russian pedagogical higher education establishments. The author describes the complex of historical-linguistic disciplines which has traditionally developed at linguistic departments. Developing the thesis of interconnection of language, culture and history, the author proves the necessity of teaching historical-linguistic disciplines at non-linguistic departments of Russian universities.