This article sums up the results of the international scientific-practical conference «Teacher for the Future: Language, Culture, Personality», devoted to the 200th anniversary of F.I. Buslayev, an outstanding Russian scholar, linguist, academician and educationalist. Held in the MPSU, the conference brought together academics, scholars and researchers, university professors and school teachers, post-graduates, masters, bachelors and students to consider some topical issues of the Russian language teaching methods.