Keyword: «motivation in learning russian»

Russia is a country that has trade relations around the world, whose economy is constantly growing. For this reason, the spread of the Russian language in most countries is an established fact. The same can be said about Italy, where they began to teach Russian in the 20s of the last century. Currently, more and more Italians decide to study it, primarily in connection with the establishment of business relations between Russia and Italy in the field of economics and commerce, in order to communicate with Russian business partners and clients. At universities, and then at colleges, they began to teach Russian primarily for philological students. However, in our time we need engineers, economists and lawyers who would be fluent in the Russian language of business communication. For over 50 years of teaching at the Department of the Russian Language of the University of Bergamo, urgent problems related to the methodology of teaching the Russian language have been considered, new directions in the teaching system are established, the essence of Russian culture is revealed, levels of knowledge of Russian as a foreign language are determined. These issues are highlighted by the author in this article, the prospects of research in this area are disclosed, experience in teaching and teaching Russian as a foreign language is described.