HISTORY

Courses available

Department of Russian is founded on January 16th 1964. When it was firstly founded, there was only Diploma course. Lecturers were the Russian native professors. There were totally 13 of Russian native teachers from 1964 to 1981. Starting from 2000 BA course is provided. In 2008 MA Qualifying course was opened, and then in 2009 MA course was started. The CHRD (Centre of Human Resource Development) evening classes are opened once in three months. In 2016-2017 academic year there are 341 students studying under the department of Russian.

International Relationship

On December 15th 2011 the momentum of understanding for cooperation between Yangon university of Foreign Languages and Moscow Institute of Asian and African Studies was signed. The signing ceremony of the momentum of understanding for cooperation between Yangon University of Foreign Languages and Russkiy Mir Foundation was held on 12th December 2014. The implementation of opening Russian Centre in Yangon University of Foreign Languages is on its progress.

MISSION

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VISION

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Programmes Offered

Since the Japanese Department was established in 1964,  Full-time diploma and Part-Time diploma courses have been offered. After that, an undergraduate program was started in 2000-2001 academic year.MA (Q) program was started in 2009 and MA program was started in 2010.

Staff Strength & Student Population

Strength and Qualifications of the Teaching Staffs

The former heads of department of Russian are as followed:

  1. Daw Htwe Htwe (Professor)
  2. U Tun Tun Min (Assistant Lecturer)
  3. U Twin Aye Maung (Lecturer)
  4. Daw Myint Myint Yee (Assistant Lecturer)

The current head of department is Daw Soe Soe Yee (Lecturer).

1 head of department (lecturer), 11 lecturers, 4 assistant lecturers, 3 tutors, in total 19 teaching staffs are working in the department of Russian.