History and Contemporaneity of Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language in Vietnam

The article presents the history of the emergence of the Russian language in Vietnam, the development of the practice of teaching it in schools and universities, and also shows the modern system of Vietnamese higher education in terms of the presence and functioning of its departments of training in the field of “Russian as a foreign language”. The aim of the article is to analyze the situation with the study of Russian as a foreign lan-guage in Vietnam. The authors identify the reasons for the decline in interest in studying Russian among Viet-namese students, and analyze the factors that contribute to stabilizing the situation in this regard and strength-ening the position of the Russian language in the political, economic and educational spheres of modern Viet-namese society. It is emphasized that the intensification of contacts between Russia and Vietnam in tourism, trade, political, diplomatic and other spheres of interaction is able to revive interest among the Vietnamese in Russian culture and language, returning it to the leading position among foreign linguistic systems studied in the country.