Serafima Alekseevna Khavronina: researcher, methodologist, teacher

The article highlights the main milestones of the scientific and methodological activities of the professor of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia Serafima Alekseevna Khavronina, the outstanding specialist in the theory and methodology of teaching Russian as a foreign language, who made a significant contribution to the formation and development of Russian linguodidactics. S.A. Khavronina is the author of numerous scientific publications, as well as textbooks and teaching aids, normative-methodological and test materials, which have been actively used for many decades in Russia and abroad. Her textbook “Russian in Exercises” is unparalleled in popularity and the number of reprints in dozens of countries. The importance of S.A. Khavronina’s scientific works lies in scientific and methodological description of such complex aspects in the practice of teaching Russian as the word order, ways of expressing time, prefixes, etc. She has also the developed scientific and methodological foundations of teaching Russian as a way of business communication. For her professional achievements, S.A. Khavronina has been awarded the Order of Friendship, Pushkin and Motina medals.