Association of Hispanists of Russia

The Russian Spanish Association is a Russian inter-regional professional and creative public organization uniting individuals and legal entities whose scientific, educational and creative activities are widely represented on the Spanish ( Ibero-American ) theme, history and traditions of Russian-Spanish literary, cultural, scientific, public or state relations .

According to the Charter of the Association, its main tasks are:

• development of the scientific potential of specialists in various fields of Spanish studies and the implementation of research and creative projects in education, science, culture, economics, production;
• improving the professional level of scientific and pedagogical personnel in the humanities in the field of Spanish studies;
• assistance in the implementation of modern research and creative programs of various Spanish practitioners, to assist in the practical implementation of innovative developments, their experimental verification and implementation (taking into account the interests of near and far abroad);
• support and promotion of promising projects and developments that contribute to the solution of theoretical and creative problems of Spanish studies ^[1] .

It was founded on February 9, 1994, at the First Conference of Russian Spaniards, it is based at Moscow State Linguistic University , one of the initiators of its founding and the first president was the Russian Spaniard, poet and translator, Professor S. F. Goncharenko , who also initiated the creation of the Miguel Cultural Foundation Hernandez Since May 2008, the Association’s partner is the University of Cadiz (Spain).

Among the leading Spaniards of the USSR and the Russian Federation are the names of the editor of the first Spanish-Russian dictionary Fedor Kelin ^[2] , Yuri Tynyanov and his daughter Inna , Anatoly Geleskul , Sergey Goncharenko, Venedikt Vinogradov , Natalya Firsova , Boris Dubin , Natalya Mikheeva , Pavel Grushko , Yuri Rylov , Vsevolod Bagno , Svetlana Piskunova and others.