Currently, the chair called the "Russian and Oriental Languages" chair of Nakhchivan State University was incorporated as the Nakhchivan branch of the Azerbaijan State Pedagogical Institute of the university on April 6, 1970 by order No. 54, "Russian and foreign languages" by order No. 224 on September 16, 1973, and "Russian and foreign languages" on May 25, 1995. With order No. 132, the chair was renamed "Russian language" due to the increase in teaching hours of other foreign languages, and with order No. 34 dated March 1, 2004, it was renamed "Russian language and literature" in connection with the opening of the specialty "Russian language and literature teacher". The specialty "Teacher of Russian language and literature" was opened at NSU. In connection with the transition to the new education system from the 2009-2010 academic year, the specialty "Russian language and literature teacher" was changed to "Russian language teaching". "Literature", "Oriental Languages and Literature" departments were merged and named "Russian and Oriental Languages" department. Currently it is called "Oriental Languages" department.

Currently staff training in 3 specialties is being conducted in the "Oriental Languages" department.