The Faculty of Philology is one of the oldest at
Tomsk State University. In the momentous year of 1917, the Faculty of History and Philology was established at TSU, comprising three divisions: History, Philosophy and Philology.
Unsurprisingly, in this difficult period for our country, the Faculty operated only briefly: it was closed in 1922. The Faculty of History and Philology reopened exactly twenty years later, in 1941, another turning point for Russia. The divisions continued to develop together until 1974, when a sufficient foundation for the faculties to work independently had been established and they separated.
Thus, the Philology division became a faculty and began its independent development in 1974. A Journalism division gradually emerged within the Faculty of Philology and in 2004 gained the status of a
faculty.
The Faculty of Philology is based in
TSU’s third academic building (known as "BIN"). The foundation of the building (the first student dormitory) was laid on 22 July (3 August) 1883. The dormitory was designed to accommodate 75 students of Imperial Tomsk University.
The third building was built with private donations to a design by P. P. Naranovich. It opened on 27 August (8 September) 1888. The dormitory had 45 rooms: one room with three windows for three people, 32 rooms with two windows for two people and 12 rooms with one window for one person. It also had a communal dining room, a reception hall, a reading room, a kitchen, servants’ rooms and other facilities. Each student was given one candle for the evening.
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After the Revolution and the Civil War, the building housed the Biological Institute, which gave it its second name: «TSU BIN Building». During the Great Patriotic War, the building accommodated evacuation hospitals. After the war, it housed the TSU Faculty of History and Philology, from which the Faculty of Philology separated in 1974. Before the present Physics and Mathematics Building was built, this building’s number within TSU was
second. In the 1990s, the building underwent major renovation, after which it was numbered
third. Since 1946, TSU’s third academic building has been a monument of federal significance.
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More material about the Faculty of Philology can be found in the Digital Collection, created in 2017 by the Research Library to mark the 100th anniversary of history and philology education at Tomsk State University. The collection currently contains about 400 documents, including archival and contemporary materials and research.
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