Over the years, such prominent specialists as K.F. Vasilyev, M.S. Govorov, K.V. Garanin, N.I. Demko, V.I. Kudryavtsev, G.A. Martirosyan, V.K. Pukhlikov, D.N. Sankin, I.V. Tambovtsev, V.G. Erokhin, I.P. Melehin, V.A. Ignatyev and others have worked at the department.
The research vector of the department is aimed at developing research that effectively works to improve the ideological and methodological are employed in the educational process and much attention is paid to improving the methodology of general philosophical education of students, as well as improving their personal qualities, orienting them to objective trends in the development of socio-political life in modern Russia and the world.