Historical and Culturologic Aspects in Slavic Studies as the Directions of a Joint Activity of St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Turnovo and Bashkir State University

In the article, the main lines of the research and educational cooperation of the linguists of the Bashkir State University and the St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Turnovo are considered. The prospects of these contacts are determined by capabilities of joint development of the long-term research programs in comparative linguistics, sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, which can be implement as collective monographs, Ph.D. theses, textbooks of the Russian and the Bulgarian languages, dictionaries (including the multilingual dictionaries). A program of the double diplomas in the specialized training of undergraduates “Applied Slavic philology (translation study)” as a new form of the cooperation is also considered.