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The Department of Philology was founded in 1845 at the Serbian Lyceum, a predecessor of the University of Belgrade, as one of its first departments. Its foundation preceded the foundation of the later-introduced Departments of Slavonic Studies, Serbian Language and Serbian Literature at today’s Faculty of Philology of the University of Belgrade. It changed its name several times.

In 1878, a decision was made to found the Department of Russian Language at the Great School. This Department was later developed into the Department of East and West Slavonic languages. In 1963, it changed its name and became the Slavonic Department; however, in 1990, it was finally renamed to the Department of Slavonic Studies, the name it has retained since.
The Department of Slavonic Studies is the central scientific-academic institution in Serbia, one of the oldest and greatest departments at the Faculty of Philology, and one of the largest Slavonic departments in general. The Department today studies the following languages (in the following order of introduction):

  • Russian language and literature;
  • Polish language and literature;
  • Czech language and literature;
  • Slovak language and literature;
  • Ukrainian language and literature.

Library

The Library of the Slavic Department exists and works within Department, since 1878. The Library Fund burnt out at the end of the World War II, in October 1944. Starting from May 1945, the library began to recover and work again.
The Library of the Slavic Department in its fund has monographic and serial publications in Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, Sorabian, Belorussian and Serbian, as well as foreign Slavic literature in German, French, English, Italian and Scandinavian languages.
There are close up to 74,000 books, 291 titles of journals and about 1000 units of non-book material (compact discs, audio and video tapes, records, maps).

The library within the fund has 10 legacies: professor Radovan Lalić, Đorđe Živanović, Duša Perović, Stojanka Popović, Kvapil brothers, Dragutin Mirković, Jara Ribnikar, Nana Bogdanović, Vera Mitrinović and Janko Sabadoš.
The library fund can be searched through the author and subject catalog. Since the introduction of electronic processing, more than 15,000 publications can be searched within the Cobiss system. The library also has catalogs of magister and master papers and doctoral dissertations.

The library reading room has 84 seats. In it, the exhibitions and various events are organized which actively follow various symposiums and seminars, event ceremonies and video projections which are important for the Library and the Slavic Department.

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