Methodical support of teaching Russian in the foreign educational environment: main categories of subjects and their characteristics

The article deals with the problems of methodical support of teaching Russian in the foreign educational environment. These problems are of great significance in the sphere of geopolitical interests of the Russian Federation. In the article the definition of methodical support is worked out, the main categories of its subjects are revealed, their characteristics are analyzed. Main problems of the subjects’ professional activity are also under analysis, some variants of the problems solving are suggested. The author concludes that the effectiveness of methodical support depends on professional needs and specific activities of teachers. To define and study these factors the author took polls and questionnaires for Russian language teachers in distant and near foreign countries, analysed the reports of Rossotrudnichestvo on the results of the monitoring cultural and language education in the absence of language environment. The research allowed to define the main categories of methodical support subjects, the conditions and content of their activities, problems in teaching Russian abroad. The results of the research can help to work out an integral system of methodical support in teaching Russian abroad, its contents, and effective modern technologies.