The Department, as a service, provides teaching of Russian and professional Russian language on the following faculties: information technology, mechanical-mathematical, physical, technical, historical, social Sciences and journalism.In connection with the expansion of international relations of the ENU. L. N. Gumilev and learning at the University foreign students of the teachers of the Department spetsializiruyutsya and on methods of teaching Russian as a foreign language (prof A. E. Agmanova, Assoc. B. M. Esmagambetova).