The Department of Language Training for Foreign Citizens has intensified a research work with foreign students. In particular, Maryna M. Nabok, Candidate of Philological sciences, together with medical students have been studying Ukrainian folklore and doing a comparative analysis of it to the folklores of other peoples of the world. The topicality and novelty of this work consist in finding the national peculiarities of understanding the folkloric heroes of Ukraine, as well as countries of Africa, the Middle East, Brazil.

For the first time in the Ukrainian folklore studies through the prism of the categories «good – evil», «beautiful – ugly», «my own – somebody else’s», the ethnotype of the warrior is singled out and the comparative analysis of it is carried out. Pay attention to the national nature of folklore heroes, the lecturer and students determine the ideological, ethnoesthetic, psychological, moral foundations for character formation of these heroes. The results of their scientific achievements are presented in Ukrainian and foreign publications and in International Conferences. The report of Maryna M. Nabok «Ethnic Aesthetics of Heroic in Ukrainian Folk Dumas and Oral Folk Poetic Works of the World» was evaluated highly positively in Munich. Scientists from all over the world have written positive reviews, noting the novelty, the depth of this cross-cultural study.

As a result of Munich conference, Maryna M. Nabok was invited to the International Conference «Traditional Musical Instruments of Kobza Players» (June 2-3, 2017, Kyiv). This trip is planned together with students. The reports «Comparative analysis of the national pictures of the world in Ukrainian and Arabic folklore» by Mohammad Abu Hammad (Jordan) and «Ethnotype of the warrior in the Ukrainian folk dumas and Kurdish folk songs» by Mehmet Beshir (Turkey) were prepared. We wish further creative achievements to the lecturer and the young foreign researchers!