The Department of General and Applied Linguistics and Slavic Philology was established in August 1966 (until the early 1970s it was called the Department of General and Slavic Linguistics, until 2015 – the Department of General Linguistics and History of Language). Its first head was the Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor V. Zhuravliov. From 1971 to 1975, the department was headed by the Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor – L. Sarkisova, and from the beginning of 1976 to 2014 the department was headed by Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine, Honored Professor of Donetsk National University, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor Yevhen Otin. The first employees of the department in the 60’s – 70’s were E. Otin, L. Sarkisova, P. Seheda, V. Tokar, H. Rikhter, I. Kurdiumova, O. Bilyk, L. Pomeranska, I. Pryntsevskyi, A. Symonenko, A. Kreitor, S. Malyshev, R. Syrota, E. Tsarenko. Further the stuff was supplemented and renewed at the expense of talented youth, graduates of the Philological Faculty- L. Borysova, N. Kasianenko, M. Lutsenko, V. Mozhunov, K. Pershyna, V. Pylypak, N. Yaroshenko.