A scientific and methodological journal published since 1936 in Moscow. Until 1991, it was the journal of the Ministry of Education of the RSFSR (formerly the Ministry of Public Education of the RSFSR, the Ministry of Education of the RSFSR). “Russian Language and Literature in Secondary School” was formed as a result of the division of the publication into two journals: "Literature at School" and "Russian Language at School". Previous titles of the journal: "Mother tongue at school”: (1914-1916, Yaroslavl; 1917-1927, Moscow, editor-publisher: A.M. Lebedev), "Russian language in the labor school" (1928), "Russian Language in the Soviet School" (1929-1931), "Litarature and Language in the Polytechnic School" (1932), "Mother tongue and Literature in Secondary School", "Russian Language and Literature in Secondary School" (1934-1935). The journal was not published in 1942-1945. Frequency: it is published every two months, 6 issues per year. Editors-in-chief: Academician P.I. Lebedev-Polyansky, A.M. Peshkovsky, K.A. Alaverdov (1936-1938), Corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences S.G. Barkhudarov (1938-1946), Doctor of Philology N.A. Glagolev, Doctor of Philology S.I. Abakumov (1946-1949), Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences D.E. Rosenthal (1949-1950), academician V.I. Borkovsky (1950-1953), Doctor of Philology E.M. Galkina-Fedoruk (1953-1963), academician, Doctor of Philology N.M. Shansky (1963-2005), Candidate of Philology N.A. Nikolina (since 2005). Since 2001, the journal "Russian language at school and at home" (with its own numbering) has been published in a common cover with the journal. Russian language teaching and learning topical issues are highlighted in the journal, and the results of fundamental and applied research in the field of Russian studies and methods of teaching the Russian language are summarized. Materials on the history and current state of the Russian language, its grammar, vocabulary, phraseology, stylistics, spelling are published; achievements of leading scientific linguistic and methodological schools are reflected. Among the authors of the journal were well-known methodologists: S.I. Abakumov, K.B. Barkhin, V.A. Dobromyslov, M.A. Rybnikova, M.V. Ushakov, A.V. Tekuchev, L.Yu. Maksimov, E.A. Baranova, I.A. Figurovsky, L.P. Fedorenko, M.T. Baranov, N.A. Plenkin and others. Prominent figures of Russian studies and general linguistics wrote for the journal: L.V. Shcherba, S.P. Obnorsky, I.I. Meshchaninov, N.N. Durnovo, D.N. Ushakov, V.V. Vinogradov, A.M. Peshkovsky, G.O. Vinokur, L.A. Bulakhovsky, R.I. Avanesov, A.N. Gvozdev, A.A. Reformatsky, A.B. Shapiro, V.A. Beloshapkova, D.N. Shmelev.
Presented issues: 1938, 1939.